The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.
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
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 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.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. - Morris Kline
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight. - Morris Kline
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. - Morris Kline
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
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.
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,…
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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