Edmund Landau

Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.

— Edmund Landau

Please don't read the preface for the teacher.

— Edmund Landau

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

The multiplication table will not occur in this book, not even the theorem,and then prove the theorem.

— Edmund Landau

My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.

— Edmund Landau