As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
JOHN FORBES NASHStatistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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