Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. - Morris Kline
- Morris Kline
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. - Morris Kline
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
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,…
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 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.
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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