To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

  • -- Paul Klee 保罗·克莱

在我看来,只强调美就像一个数学系统,只关注它自己的正数。

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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

如果真的如希尔伯特所言,数学是一场毫无意义的游戏,在纸上做着毫无意义的标记,那么我们唯一可以参考的数学经验就是在纸上做标记。

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

没有烦琐的工作,没有人能对纯数学研究是什么样子的,或能从纯数学研究中获得丰富的见解有任何具体的、全面的认识。