Noga Alon quotes:

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  • I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  • Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.

  • Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

  • In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.

  • There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

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