Top 10 Quotes by Doron Zeilberger

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Feet, Interesting, Algorithms

"The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. April 15, 2006.

The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

Doron Zeilberger

Real, Math, Years

When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

Doron Zeilberger

Real, Ideas, Trying

"Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it. I prefer finite mathematics much more than infinite mathematics. I think that it is much more natural, much more appealing and the theory is much more beautiful. It is very concrete. It is something that you can touch and something you can feel and something to relate to. Infinity mathematics, to me, is something that is meaningless, because it is abstract nonsense.

Doron Zeilberger

Beautiful, Science, Thinking

Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.

Doron Zeilberger

Zero, Perfect, Vacuums

"[Nothing]". Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger, 2009.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

Doron Zeilberger

Science, Mathematics, Should

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Doron Zeilberger

Mathematics, Programming, Harder

"The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Personal blog at Rutgers School of Arts and Design website, April 15, 2006.

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Doron Zeilberger

Real, Evil, Intuition

""Real" Analysis is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. November 26, 2001.