Carl Pomerance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.
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Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.
-- Carl Pomerance
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Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
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Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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