• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    This reminds me of this quote by Alfréd Rényi (often misattributed to his friend, Paul Erdős)

    “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems”

  • montechristo@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Makes sense. Wigner’s contributions are everywhere in physics and parts of math. Must’ve come from somewhere.