Emil Artin Professions : Mathematician Born : March 3, 1898 Died : December 20, 1962 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Emil Artin I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously. Emil Artin suffering giving book It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out. Emil Artin mathematical proof mathematics This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped. Emil Artin important doe science Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors
