In the second place, the notes are there to convince the reader that I didn’t make things up. But please don’t get the impression that I actually read more than a few pages of most of the references quoted.
The notes are also a convenient hiding place for the author’s true opinions. But what do they matter?
on why his book Mathematics Without Apologies has so many footnotes.
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