Cris, Can I quote this in my blog this month? Jim On Monday, November 3, 2014, Cris Moore <moore@santafe.edu> wrote:
I believe the full quote is that mathematicians are devices for turning coffee, red wine, delicious food, world travel, the sight of beautiful gardens, the rhythm of poetry and literature, delightful partners, the joy of raising children, and excellent sex into theorems.
Ah, if only Erdos had had a fuller life.
- cris
On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:51 PM, "Gustavus Simmons" <gsimmons30@comcast.net> wrote:
I don't know whether he originated the saying, but on more than one occasion I heard Erdos say: A mathematician is just a device that turns strong coffee into strong theorems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Baker" <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] coffee & theorems
Fermat must have had only a single-shot espresso before he proved his Little Theorem.
At 02:04 PM 11/3/2014, Dan Asimov wrote:
I've heard that this quote is due to Paul ErdÅ's. --Dan
On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
"Mathematicians turn coffee into theorems." -- unknown ??
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