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There is nothing holier in this life of ours that the first consciousness of love the first fluttering of its silken wings the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or destroy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Friday Apr 25, 2025
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Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?

Quote Author: Alfréd Rényi

	Alfréd Rényi
	(1921-1970) A Diary on Information Theory, p31 - Hungarian, founder Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.