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Littlewood, J. E. (1885-1977)

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.
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"The Mathematician's Art of Work" in Bela Bollobas (ed.) Littlewood's Miscellany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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