A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. - Morris Kline
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
- Morris Kline
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. - Morris Kline
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. - Morris Kline
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. - Morris Kline
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. - Morris Kline
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects,… - Morris Kline
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects,…
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. - Morris Kline
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight. - Morris Kline
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only p… - Morris Kline
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only p…
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