3 Nov
2014
3 Nov
'14
3:25 p.m.
Wikipedia says: His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems",[14] and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős,[15] but Erdős himself ascribed it to Rényi.[16]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s On 11/03/2014 05:04 PM, Dan Asimov wrote:
I've heard that this quote is due to Paul Erdős.
On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
"Mathematicians turn coffee into theorems." -- unknown ??