Edsger Dijkstra: The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

-- Edsger Dijkstra


		Name: Edsger Dijkstra Type: Scientist Nationality: Dutch Birth: May 11, 1930 Death: August 6, 2002

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