Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, , , and .
Time becomes more precious when you have children.
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
We have the power to turn against our creators.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Who will observe the observers?
Happiness is activity of soul.
Happiness is a state of activity.
I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with ast...
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.
This is the kind of discovery that resonates.
God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.
I think it is nice to get older.
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
