Computers Are Like Humans - They Do

Computers Are Like Humans - They Do Everything Except Think.

The Total Subject Of Mathematics Is Clearly Too Broad For Any Of Us. I Do Not Think That Any Mathematician Since Gauss Has Covered It Uniformly And Fully; Even Hilbert Did Not And All Of Us Are Of Considerably Lesser Width Quite Apart From The Question Of Depth Than Hilbert.

When We Talk Mathematics, We May Be Discussing A Secondary Language Built On The Primary Language Of The Nervous System.

The Emphasis On Mathematical Methods Seems To Be Shifted More Towards Combinatorics And Set Theory - And Away From The Algorithm Of Differential Equations Which Dominates Mathematical Physics.

By And Large It Is Uniformly True In Mathematics That There Is A Time Lapse Between A Mathematical Discovery And The Moment When It Is Useful; And That This Lapse Of Time Can Be Anything From 30 To 100 Years, In Some Cases Even More; And That The Whole System Seems To Function Without Any Direction, Without Any Reference To Usefulness, And Without Any Desire To Do Things Which Are Useful.