Sir Michael Atiyah over verschillende bewijzen voor dezelfde stelling

I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalize in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.
Sir Michael [...]

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