Tag Tag Mathematical elegance
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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Edsger Dijkstra · 1984
On the Nature of Computing Science

An argument for computing science as a formal mathematical discipline, centred on effective reasoning, simplicity and elegance.

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