I find it mentioned in a book (Italian) this phrase attributed to Alan Turing: The
If you present a false friend English very often, this phrase sounds now suspected (though the concept is fascinating that a certain naïveté help you be a good mathematician.) A quick search tells me that the "naivety" was in the original an "ingenuity", meaning "clever." Alas, this time it was naive to those who have translated.
For the record, the original sentence was:
mathematical reasoning can be schematically considered as the exercise of the combination of two characteristics, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
If you present a false friend English very often, this phrase sounds now suspected (though the concept is fascinating that a certain naïveté help you be a good mathematician.) A quick search tells me that the "naivety" was in the original an "ingenuity", meaning "clever." Alas, this time it was naive to those who have translated.
For the record, the original sentence was:
Mathematical Reasoning May Be Regarded Rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, Which May we call intuition and ingenuity.
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