The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces..

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better..

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass o….

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk..

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead..

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a p….

The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his ….

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and ….

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the conver….

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation..

What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathe….

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants..

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession..