Mathematics Quotes - Page 28

• Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Knowledge, Math

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• We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

  Jaime Escalante

  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Education, Science, World

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• The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, Science

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• One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

  Freeman Dyson

  Education, Science, Imagination

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• Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Education, Math, Soul

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Math, Thinking

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• "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

  Alexander Dewdney

  Education, Powerful, Math

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• I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

  Archimedes

  Education, Math, Littles

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• All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Education, Math, Prejudice

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• Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

  Paul Brodeur

  Education, Wisdom, Tears

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• The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

  William Fogg Osgood

  Truth, Math, Statistics

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• Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

  Francois Le Lionnais

  Education, Learning, Phoenix

  François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

  Richard Courant

  Education, Reality, Men

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Numbers, Statistics

  Keith Devlin (1998). “Mathematics: The New Golden Age”, p.228, Penguin UK

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• It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Education, Statistics, Use

  "The Theory of Political Economy". Book by William Stanley Jevons, Chapter I, Introduction, 1871.

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• The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Firsts, Stories

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• The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Moon, Miracle

  David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage

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• Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

  Richard Courant

  Education, Systematic, Principles

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everything tries to be round.

  Black Elk

  Education, Trying, Statistics

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Education, Mean, Important

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• Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

  Sophus Lie

  Education, Discipline, Important

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• There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Three, Triangles, Very Good

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• Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Children, Thinking

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