I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.
The world is a very complicated place, as babies know. - David Mumford
The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.
- David Mumford
Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think. - David Mumford
Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete. - David Mumford
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points. - David Mumford
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we o… - David Mumford
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we o…
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that conv… - David Mumford
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that conv…
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they… - David Mumford
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they…
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating. - David Mumford
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. - David Mumford
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