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Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
(16 Mar 1846 - 7 Jul 1927)
Swedish mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler (2 quotes)
The mathematician’s best work is art, a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear, and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch each other.
— Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
As quoted in Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923), 139.
The mathematician’s best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
— Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
As quoted, without citation, in Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923), 139.
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- 16 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Mittag-Leffler's birth.
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) --
Carl Sagan
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