Jim Propp famous quotes

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
-- Jim Propp

#Mathematics #Blah #Mathematical

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.
-- Jim Propp

#Thinking #Intuition #Steps

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.
-- Jim Propp

#Math #Science #Ideas

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.