[] Re: Interview with Manin ~~~> The Wand Chooses The Wizard

Interview with Manin ~~~> The Wand Chooses The Wizard
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/interview_with_manin.html

My favorite:

| I must explain to you how I imagine mathematics.  I am an emotional Platonist
| (not a rational one: there are no rational arguments in favor of Platonism).
| Somehow or other, for me mathematical research is a discovery, not an invention.
| I imagine for myself a great castle, or something like that, and you gradually
| start seeing its contours through the deep mist, and begin to investigate something.
| How you formulate what it is you've seen depends on your type of thinking and on the
| scale of what you have seen, and on the social circumstances around you, and so on.
|
| Yuri Manin, in Mikhail Gelfand (interviewer), Mark Saul (translator),
| "We Do Not Choose Our Profession, It Chooses Us : Interview with Yuri Manin",
| ''Notices of the AMS'' 56 (November 2009), 1268–1274.
| http://www.ams.org/notices/200910/rtx091001268p.pdf

Jon Awbrey, 08 Nov 2009, 6:48 AM
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/interview_with_manin.html#c029001

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