Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.
Terence Tao... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.
Terence TaoAt a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.
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