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When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. Sigmund Freud		Sunday Nov 24, 2024
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Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does. L.J. Mordell

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	L.J. Mordell
	In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.

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Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.