It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
— Stanisław Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician (1991)
From his memoir Adventures of a Mathematician (1991).
Topics: simplicity, mathematics
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
— Stanisław Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician (1991)
From his memoir Adventures of a Mathematician (1991).
Topics: simplicity, mathematics