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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

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Der traditionelle Mathematiker erkennt und schätzt mathematische Eleganz, wenn er sie sieht. Ich schlage vor, noch einen Schritt weiter zu gehen und die Eleganz als einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der Mathematik zu betrachten: Wenn sie unbeholfen ist, ist sie keine Mathematik.

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