John von Neumann

Hungarian-American mathematician
28 December 1903 — 8 February 1957

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. 


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