Leonard Adleman over zitten en denken
Mathematicians are trained and inclined to sit and think. A mathematician can sit and think intensely about a problem for 12 hours a day, six months straight, with perhaps just a pencil and paper.
Leonard Adleman, geciteerd in Gina Kolata, SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory, The New York Times (13 december 1994)
Adleman vindt dat wiskundigen dan ook meer op filosofen lijken dan op rekenaars.
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