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Maxwell Rosenlicht
(15 Apr 1924 - 22 Jan 1999)
mathematician who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He had an international reputation for his work on Jacobian variables.
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Science Quotes by Maxwell Rosenlicht (1 quote)
~~[source unidentified]~~ You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.
— Maxwell Rosenlicht
(1949). Widely seen across the web, but as yet Webmaster has not been able to find the primary source. Can you help?
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) -- 
