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John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood
(9 Jun 1885 - 6 Sep 1977)
English mathematician who studied the distribution of prime numbers. During World War I, he worked on ballistics.
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Science Quotes by John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood (4)
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood
A Mathematician's Miscellany (1953). In Béla Bollobás, Littlewood's Miscellany (1986), 24.
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.
— John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood
A Mathematician's Miscellany (1953). In Béla Bollobás, Littlewood's Miscellany (1986), 135.
See also: | Lecture (18)
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood
A Mathematician's Miscellany (1953). In Béla Bollobás, Littlewood's Miscellany (1986), 104.
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
— John Edensor (J. E.) Littlewood
A Mathematician's Miscellany (1953). In Béla Bollobás, Littlewood's Miscellany (1986), 59.
