Great quotes from great scientists - part 1
“Imagine an alien force, vastly more powerful than us landing on Earth and demanding the value of R(5, 5) or they will destroy our planet. In that case, we should marshal all our computers and all our mathematicians and attempt to find the value. But suppose, instead, that they asked for R(6, 6), we should attempt to destroy the aliens”. - Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős was one of the most idiosyncratic scientists of all time. He is known for the great amount of published material, only losing, in amount of lines, to Leonard Euler. Known as “The Man who Loved Only Numbers”, since Paul Hoffman’s successful book, Erdős was, no doubt, one of the modern geniuses of mathematics.