I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

  • -- Georg Cantor 康托

我意识到,在这项事业中,我把自己置身于一种与广泛持有的有关数学无限大的观点和经常为数字的本质辩护的观点相反的立场。

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The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

大量关于告密者的文献表明,他们远非古怪的极端分子,而是相当普通的人:男性和女性,年轻人和老年人,初中和高中,并不比大多数努力工作的人更书呆子或强迫症。

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。

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。