"I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics."
— Edmund Landau

January 1, 1970

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Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)