Quotes About Riemann

#1. It wouild 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.' John Horgan.

Ronald Graham

#2. 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

#3. If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

David Hilbert

#4. Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Aldous Huxley

#5. In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

Stanislaw Lem

#6. Riemann found that in four spatial dimensions, one needs a collection of ten numbers at each point to describe its properties.

Michio Kaku

#7. The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

Andrew Wiles

#8. I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

David Hilbert

#9. Riemann conjecture,

Gregory Benford

#10. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

Richard Hamming

#11. If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

Bernhard Riemann

#12. I train six to seven hours during the three separate sessions every day while in camp.

Diego Sanchez

#13. He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.

George R R Martin

#14. Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and confidence in the providence of God
through certainty that only God can set everything to rights, and faith that in the end, He will. Man can only ameliorate, not cure.

J. Budziszewski

#15. Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Victor Hugo

#16. The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

James Edwin Gunn

#17. Pride cast Adam out of paradise. He was not content with the place God assigned him. He tried to raise himself, and fell. Thus sin, sorrow and death entered into this world by pride.

J.C. Ryle

#18. The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#19. Music is the language of memory

Jodi Picoult

#20. Are you really going to go all the way to Helsinki to see her without getting in touch first? All the way across the Arctic Circle?" "Is that too weird?" She laughed. " 'Bold' is the word I'd use for it." "I feel like things will work out better that way. Just intuition, of course.

Haruki Murakami