Raymond Smullyan used to pull dimes out of my ears when I was a kid, no kidding.
My old man, a friend of Smullyan’s (hence his access to my youthful ears), used to
argue that a major motivation for mathematicians was “laziness,” a desire to figure
out ways to solve problems with less effort.
Raymond Smullyan used to pull dimes out of my ears when I was a kid, no kidding.
My old man, a friend of Smullyan’s (hence his access to my youthful ears), used to argue that a major motivation for mathematicians was “laziness,” a desire to figure out ways to solve problems with less effort.