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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

It surely would be intolerable not to know

 Home Mathematics The beauty of mathematics Simple to state but hard to prove
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A beautiful quote fom Edward Titchmarsh:[ref]
It can be of no practical use to know that pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
Ciro Santilli believes that it is perhaps for this reason that simple to state but hard to prove theorems are so attractive.
This quote was brought to Ciro Santilli's attention at: www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/

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