Atle Selberg Professions : Mathematician Born : June 14, 1917 Died : August 6, 2007 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Atle Selberg The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right Atle Selberg ends way ideas A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. Atle Selberg proof mathematics may Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician Arnold Ross mathematician All Authors
