Andre Weil Quotes

• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

  Andre Weil

  Math, Devil, Existence

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.

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• Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

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  Math, Men, Morality

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

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  Past, Discovery, Ideas

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• Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

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  Time, Work, Math

  Andre Weil (2012). “The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician”, p.91, Birkhäuser

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

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  Mean, Intuition, Connections

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• When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

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  Branches, Mathematics, Source

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• First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

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  People, Firsts, Mathematician

  "Comic Sections: Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

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• What is crucial is there be laws.

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  Law, Crucial

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