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Emil Artin
(3 Mar 1898 - 20 Dec 1962)
Austro-German mathematician who made a major contribution to field theory, among other work. He solved (1927) one of the famous 23 problems posed by Hilbert in 1900.
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Science Quotes by Emil Artin (1 quote)
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.
— Emil Artin
In George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane (1982), 19.
See also:
- 3 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Artin's birth.
- Galois Theory (Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures), by Emil Artin, et al. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
