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I think I entered MIT in Math… | blogjou

Richard P. Feynman

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (From the Beaten Track)

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04 Aug 2021

I think I entered MIT in Math...


I think I entered MIT in Math (course XVIII). After a bit I went to Franklin (then head of Math Department) to ask “what is the use of higher mathematics beside teaching more higher mathematics.” He answered, “if you have to ask that then you don’t belong in mathematics.”