Posted on :Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
Mathematician(s) Quote
I am still reading a book by Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers . The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth. Found these quotes: {by ???}You need to know pi to only 39 decimal places on order to compute the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom. {To be continued...} Didn't know a mathematician has room for humour in his mind... *The Man Who Loved Only Numbers . The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth. Hyperion, New York; 1998; 318 pages; ISBN 0-7868-8406-1. 'Erdös' is pronounced 'Air-Dish'. From the book:Paul Erdös was one of the most prolific and eccentric mathematicians of our time, a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. For more than two decades he lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied pace, chasing mathematical problems in pursuit of lasting beauty and ultimate truth. --- Forget Tangkak, Forget Nilai3 ... - Monday, Nov. 21, 2005
{by Stanislaw Ulam:}The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is he forgets to zip down..
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