I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

  • -- William Petty 威廉·佩蒂

我希望没有人把我所说的人的生与死作为数学论证。

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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。

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

因为能够理解一个非常抽象和晦涩的系统而感到高兴,这使得大多数人相信它所展示的真理。

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

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。