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There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. Charles Kingsley		Tuesday Mar 17, 2026
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About 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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If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

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?

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