Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914), Death: 29-10-1993
1.
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
Lipman Bers
2.
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.
Lipman Bers
3.
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems.