When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to — Enrico Bombieri | Quote

"When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?"

Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri won the Fields Medal in 1974 for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime

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"Bombieri is one of the guardians of the Riemann Hypothesis and is based at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, once home to Einstein and Gödel. He is very softly spoken, but mathematicians always listen carefully to anything he has to say."

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When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and — Enrico Bombieri

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