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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 On the Economy of doing Mathematics · 1992

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“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 · On the Economy of doing Mathematics, 1992 · Primary source

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Edsger Dijkstra Dutch computer scientist
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On the Economy of doing Mathematics Edsger Dijkstra · 1992
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Elegance as a mathematical standardSimplicity and intellectual quality
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Mathematical eleganceSimplicityEffective reasoningFormal methods
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