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Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, "Jon, are you Jewish?" I said, "No. " And he said, "Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there. "

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Niels Henrik Abel

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

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I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

Astonished, Bring, Effort, Light, People

The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

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He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

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The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.

Dare, Equations, Gaps, Purpose, Theory
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