"The influence on mathematics of its two neighbors, physics and logic, is sometimes opposite or, at least, complementary. Whereas the entropy theorems of probability theory and mathematical physics imply that, in a large universe, disorder is probable, certain combinatorial theorems imply that complete disorder is impossible."
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Theodore Motzkin
Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.
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