"I once challenged Hardy to find a misprint on a certain page of a joint paper: he failed. It was in his own name : 'G,H.Hardy'."
"Schoolmaster : 'Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem'. Pupil: 'But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep'. [I asked Prof. Wittgenstein was this not a profound philosophical joke, and he said it was.]"
("A Mathematician's Miscellany", J.E.Littlewood, 1953)
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