Emil Artin Quotes

Austria, Mathematician
March 3, 1898 – December, 20, 1962.

Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent. Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number theory, contributing largely to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

Emil Artin
- Experience
- Proofs
- Throws
I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

Emil Artin
- Give
- Opposed
- Lecture

“This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.”

Emil Artin