Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is … - Richard Courant
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is …
- Richard Courant
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic… - Richard Courant
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic…
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematic… - Richard Courant
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematic…
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principl… - Richard Courant
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principl…
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention. - Richard Courant
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that m… - Richard Courant
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that m…
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. - Richard Courant
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. - Richard Courant
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.
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