We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

- Howard Whitley Eves

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some tech…

- Howard Whitley Eves

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itsel…

- Howard Whitley Eves

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dr…

- Howard Whitley Eves

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

- Howard Whitley Eves

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which he can boast the un…

- Howard Whitley Eves

Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutter…

- Howard Whitley Eves