Tudor Ganea spunea că „matematica progresează datorită încrederii și muncii asidue, prima augumentată iar a doua diminuată de ceea ce alții au făcut.”[1]
Note
^My algebraic topology professor, Tudor Ganea, used to say that "mathematics progresses by faith and hard work, the former augmented and the latter diminished by what others have done.” Din: "Eightfold Way: The Sculpture", de Helaman Ferguson cu Claire Ferguson, în The Eightfold Way: The Beauty of Klein's Quartic Curve, red. Silvio Levy, MSRI Publications, vol. 35, 1998
Bibliografie
[1]Samuel Eilenberg, Tudor Ganea, On the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of abstract groups, Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Ser., 65 (1957), no. 3, 517 – 518
Tudor Ganea, Some problems on numerical homotopy invariants, Lecture Notes in Math. 249 (Springer, Berlin, 1971), pp. 13 – 22