Timeline for William Thurston's quote?
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| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:17 | vote | accept | Amir Asghari | ||
| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:16 | answer | added | Gagar | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:07 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | @NateEldredge Great. I'll do. Meanwhile, I am not using it :) | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:07 | answer | added | Renaud Dreyer | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:05 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Zeilberger says that it's on page 76 of Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World by Mariana Cook. The book doesn't seem to be in Google Books so you may have to visit a library to confirm. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 7:01 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | @NateEldredge The quote is wildly attributed to Thurston. I was about to "quote" it in a paper that I failed to find the source. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 6:55 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Thurston wrote something quite similar on this very site: mathoverflow.net/a/44213/4832 "The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves." | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 6:47 | history | asked | Amir Asghari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |