I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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Nationality: German Type: Mathematician Born: April 30, 1777 Death: February 23, 1855 |
“If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”