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The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.


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I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.



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The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.



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I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.





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