Norbert Wiener Quotes About Math

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  • Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

    Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press
  • A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

  • The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

    "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.
  • The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

    "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.
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