What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself. - Ivar Ekeland

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What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.

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About Ivar Ekeland

Ivar Ekeland (born 2 July 1944, Paris) is a French mathematician of Norwegian descent. Ekeland studied at the École Normale Supérieure (1963–1967). He is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He obtained his doctorate in 1970. He teaches mathematics and economics at the Paris Dauphine University, at the École Polytechnique, at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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