QUOTES by MATHEMATICIANS

• ``I rarely go any place where there is no mathematics.''
  ----P. Erdös
  
  
  
  
• ``Virtually all algebraic notions in category theory are paradise of their parents in the most `classical' of categories ... the category of left A-modules.''
  ---- H. Bass
  
  
  
  
• ``Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial is trivially trivial''
  ----P. Freyed
  
  
  
  
• ``The remarkable thing is understanding never stays put. It is important always to get a new understanding ... ... ... understanding can be improved''
  ----Saunders MacLane
  
  
  
  
• ``Being is doing, and hence a particular Being is known (at least partly) by what it can do.''
  ----W. Lawvere
  
  
  
  
• ``The computer is important, but not to mathematics.''
  ----P. Halmos
  
  
  
  
• ``Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?''
  ----P. Halmos
  
  
  
  
• ``Old theorems never die; they turn into definitions.''
  ----E. Hewitt
  
  
  
  
• ``Approach your problems from the right end and begin with the answers. Then one day, perhaps you will find the final question.''
  ----R. Van Gulik(?)
  
  
  
  
• ``Toplogical Quantum Field theory is rock bottom topological content of physics.''
  ----Sir Michael Atiyah
  
  
  
  
• ``A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.''
  ----P. Erdös

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