“As for myself, I must confess I am absolutely incapable even of adding without mistakes…My memory is not bad, but it would be insufficient to make me a good chess-player. Why then does it not fail me in a difficult piece of mathematical reasoning where most chess-player would lose themselves? Evidently because it is guided by the general march of reasoning. A mathematical demonstration is not a simple juxtaposition of syllogisms placed in a certain order, and the order in which these elements are placed is much more important than the elements themselves. Henri Poincare, One of greatest mathematician of all times excerpts from his lecture published in Scientific American
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