Re: Where do mathematical ideas come from?


Gerry Myerson wrote:
> In article <1126057753.530951.326870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Proginoskes" <CCHeckman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > david petry wrote:
> > > Recently, someone in this newsgroup accused me of not knowing
> > > where ideas come from <gasp>. [...]
> >
> > Coffee. (There is a quote by Paul Erdos that says that a mathematician
> > is a device which turns coffee into theorems.)
>
> Renyi. Erdos popularized the quote, but attributed it to Renyi.

And I messed up the wording, too ... 0/2. 8-)

--- Christopher Heckman

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