Leopold Kronecker Quotes
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
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The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.
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Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
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Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.
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All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
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