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Ronald Graham
(31 Oct 1935 - )
American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to discrete mathematics, scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness. He spent 37 years at Bell Labs and AT&T, retiring as Director of Information Sciences in 1999.
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Science Quotes by Ronald Graham (1 quote)
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, “Yes, it is true, but you won’t be able to understand the proof.”
— Ronald Graham
As quoted in John Horgan, 'The Death of Proof', Scientific American (Oct 1993), 269, No. 4, 103.
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) -- 
