I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
For every epsilon, there is a delta.
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway.
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.