Frases de Paul Halmos

Paul Richard Halmos fue un matemático húngaro-estadounidense.[1]​

Halmos se destacó tanto por sus contribuciones teóricas, en ramas

como en teoría de las probabilidades, estadística, teoría de operadores, teoría ergódica y análisis funcional, ;

así como por haber redactado una serie de libros de texto excepcionalmente bien escritos. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. marzo 1916 – 2. octubre 2006
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Frases célebres de Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos: Frases en inglés

“What does it take to be [a mathematician]?”

Fuente: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Contexto: What does it take to be [a mathematician]? I think I know the answer: you have to be born right, you must continually strive to become perfect, you must love mathematics more than anything else, you must work at it hard and without stop, and you must never give up.

“Possibly philosophers would look on us mathematicians the same way as we look on the technicians, if they dared.”

I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Contexto: Mathematics is not a deductive science — that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. You want to find out what the facts are, and what you do is in that respect similar to what a laboratory technician does. Possibly philosophers would look on us mathematicians the same way as we look on the technicians, if they dared.

“The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.”

Proposal for a humorous first sentence to a review of a mathematical paper, rejected by editors.
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

“I was too near it then to see how shallow it all was...”

Fuente: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

“It takes a long time to learn to live — by the time you learn your time is gone.”

Fuente: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

“I like words more than numbers, and I always did.”

Fuente: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

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