Quotations

George E Andrews


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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
[About newly-found late work of Srinivasa Ramanujan.]
Quoted in John Noble Wilford, Mathematician's Final Equations Praised, New York Times (9 Jun 1981)
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.
[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]
Quoted in John Noble Wilford, Mathematician's Final Equations Praised, New York Times (9 Jun 1981)