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* [M]athematicians and [[Physics|physicists]] think alike; they are led, and sometimes misled, by the same [[pattern]]s ...e truth.<br />Therefore, '''the teacher should not discourage his students from using ''trial and error''—on the contrary, he should encourage the intellig ...

...most entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "[[abstract]]" inbreeding, a mathematic ...oning about misunderstanding their true nature while advocating their use. From "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neum ...

...opinion]] [[truths]] of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations. * The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is k ...