Mathematics is not a deductive science - that`s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don`t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Paul Halmos

Hungarian-born American mathematician

3 March 1916 — 2 October 2006

I Want to Be a Mathematician

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