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- This reminds me that the Germans have an admiration for someone with sitzfleisch, the ability to sit down and work through a time consuming task or problem.

- Learning grade school math isn't so much about the mathematics as learning that some things can take more than 30 seconds to solve.

- Heaviside was an example of an outsider making serious contributions in science and mathematics. He had no formal training when he published seminal work on electromagnetic theory in a popular telegraphy magazine. He was following in Euler's fine tradition of ignoring the rigorous niceties. .

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