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Someone has remarked that 'an ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.
-Ronald Graham
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Someone Has Remarked That 'an Ideal Math

Ronald Graham
Someone has remarked that 'an ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.
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I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. all physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. i have heard professor eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.
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