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Harold Davenport Quotes

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Harold Davenport
Simple, Mathematics, Arithmetic
Harold Davenport (1970). “The higher arithmetic: an introduction to the theory of numbers”

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

Harold Davenport
Problem, Mathematics, Theory
Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr

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