“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
— John von Neumann, reply to a physicist at Los Alamos who had said ‘I don’t understand the method of characteristics.’
—- footnote on page 226 of Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, Rider, London, 1990.
(taken from Warren Dicks’ Home Page)“
Source:
mathreader (http://mathoverflow.net/users/2164/mathreader), Famous mathematical quotes, URL (version: 2009-11-29): http://mathoverflow.net/q/7188
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Link para a página da Wikipedia inglesa sobre von Neumann.
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