George Polya Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Book, Hard Work

• If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Book, Obvious Things, Giving

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

• To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose of the successive steps is incomprehensible, if the reader or listener cannot understand how it was humanly possible to find such an argument....

  George Polya

  Book, Writing, Purpose

  "How to Solve It" by George Polya, Expanded Princeton Science Library Edition, (p. 207), 2004.

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