The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and … - Norbert Wiener

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Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Norbert Wiener

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

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