"Euler proves you can be a great mathematician even if you calculate a lot. Gauss was good at calculating too, but kept it hidden as if ashamed".
The 2019 course of Don Zagier has started today!
Great geometry moment: M_{1,1}=H/SL(2,Z) described as "toothpaste tube"
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For the curious non mathematicians.. what does “to calculate” or “not calculate” mean/infer?
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This is an extremely good point! Most mathematicians calculate, but in very different senses of the word. I know very few who, like Don does, enjoy doing computations involving integers with dozens of digits. Most of us , myself included, wouldn't be able to.
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