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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.
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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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