Math Professor Quotes This is a collection of quotes I've put together over the years, alltaken out of math classes that I've been enrolled in. Please http://math.ucsd.edu/~jlee/homepage/quotes.html
Extractions: This is a collection of quotes I've put together over the years, all taken out of math classes that I've been enrolled in. Please note that these quotes are usually taken out of context. I'm only putting these here to have a little fun, and in no way am I attempting to defame these professors. I wouldn't put a professor's quotes here if I didn't think they were worthy, which means if you've got YOUR quotes down here, you're doing all right in my book. As a matter of fact, I consider it a professional goal as a teacher to be respected enough (and have my sense of humor appreciated enough) to have my students take down my quotes. If you are one of my students, and you have recorded quotes like I have, I would love to see your archive. Jason Kastner , a graduate student at Cal Tech, has also compiled some quotes from his professors. Check out his collection of quotes. Oscar Bruno quotes Donald Cohen quotes Joel Franklin quotes Uri Keich quotes ... John Pelesko quotes
MATH 25 - Quotes math 25 FALL 1998 quotes OF THE DAY 25 September 1998 mathematicsis the queen of sciences, and the theory of numbers is the http://hilbert.dartmouth.edu/~m25f98/m25quotes.html
Extractions: 25 September 1998: "Mathematics is the queen of sciences, and the theory of numbers is the queen of mathematics." Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) 28 September 1998: "God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man." Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) 30 September 1998: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 2 October 1998: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less." Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There 5 October 1998: "It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity." Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827)
Math 1023 Quotes Page! The math 1013 quotes Page! Some quotes about Calculus and mathematics,among other things mathematics is the queen of the http://ace.acadiau.ca/~rkarsten/math1013/quotes.htm
Extractions: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Some quotes about Calculus and Mathematics, among other things... Gauss Euler Fermat Gauss [A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem.] Gauss Legendre Gauss Hilbert [On why he didn't try to solve Fermat's last theorem] Gauss Euler [upon losing the use of his right eye] Abel [about Gauss' mathematical writing style] Irving Kaplansky Eric Temple Bell Euler Euler Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. Hilbert Hilbert Barlow Dickson Doob Ramsey Roth Norbert Wiener Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl Von Neumann Titchmarsh Titchmarsh Russell Russell [Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity] Russell Russell a , he says b , he means c , but it should be d Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli Mordell Mordell [age 80] Mordell Mordell Mordell Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Please email Jeff Hooper if you find any errors or omissions, or have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Math 1023 Quotes Page! The math 1023 quotes Page! Some quotes about Calculus and mathematics,among other things mathematics is the queen of the http://ace.acadiau.ca/~rkarsten/math1023/quotes.htm
Extractions: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Some quotes about Calculus and Mathematics, among other things... Gauss Euler Fermat Gauss [A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem.] Gauss Legendre Gauss Hilbert [On why he didn't try to solve Fermat's last theorem] Gauss Euler [upon losing the use of his right eye] Abel [about Gauss' mathematical writing style] Irving Kaplansky Eric Temple Bell Euler Euler Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. Hilbert Hilbert Barlow Dickson Doob Ramsey Roth Norbert Wiener Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl Von Neumann Titchmarsh Titchmarsh Russell Russell [Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity] Russell Russell a , he says b , he means c , but it should be d Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli Mordell Mordell [age 80] Mordell Mordell Mordell Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Littlewood Please email Jeff Hooper if you find any errors or omissions, or have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
The Warped Quotes Page - Computer/Math/Science The Warped quotes Page Computer/math/Science. This page is dedicatedto quotes and sayings that sound nice sic I have a computer http://www.palfrey.dircon.co.uk/tom/quotes/computer.htm
Extractions: e) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer "We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again." "Don't get suckered in by the comments they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code." - Dave Storer "I haven't lost my mind it's backed up on tape somewhere." "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." "I bet the human brain is a kludge." - Marvin Minsky "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." - George Santayana
Quotes: Science, Math, Etc. Science, math, etc. All I ask of my body is that it carry around myhead. Thomas Alva Edison (18471931). An engineer, a physicist http://patrifriedman.com/quotes/geek_nerd.html
Extractions: Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humour from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny. A physical fellow named Fisk
Past Featured Quotes Where's the math? Past Featured quotes. From Douglas Carnine, professorof education at the University of Oregon before the California http://www.intres.com/math/Quotes.htm
Extractions: From Douglas Carnine, professor of education at the University of Oregon before the California Mathematics Subject Matter Committee, April 28, 1998: "Whenever two children talk to each other, they are engaging in cooperative learning." From a column in The San Francisco Chronicle by Debra J. Saunders , November 25, 1997: Modern Americans have elevated achieving personal comfort to an art form. Life is so easy that standing up for an ideal is something only quacks do. In an age when eating in all week is considered a hardship, I sometimes think such giants could not be found today. But then I think of Marion Joseph, Mike McKeown, Bill Evers, Leah Vukmir and Monica Brown. From an editorial in The Stars and Stripes by Denise McArthur, July 31, 1997: Two years ago DoDDS [Department of Defense Dependents Schools] implemented the new-new math programs, MathLand in elementary school, and Interactive Mathematics in Jr. high. The first year of implementation was a complete disaster for most students, as evidenced by the dismal performance on the CTBS tests. Computation scores dropped significantly, (e.g., -23%, -19%, -15%) and gains in Concepts and Applications appear negligible (e.g., +2%, +3%) particularly when there were areas of significant decline (e.g., -10%, -11%, -8%). .... According to the 1994 Public Agenda poll, 96% of Americans want tougher and more challenging courses in the basics. And what did we get? MathLand.
Christopher Thomas' Math 22 Quotes Christopher Thomas' math 22 quotes. 1/17/02. In this class we dealwith small groups of stuff. Not like all real numbers walk into http://www.tufts.edu/~mlevin05/
Extractions: Christopher Thomas' Math 22 Quotes "In this class we deal with small groups of stuff. Not like all real numbers walk into a bar, NO, like, three guys walk into a bar: a priest a rabbi and a minister" "All of you writing in pen, HA, SUFFER!" "Haha, I'm in a ship, but not in a shop, hoho." Student: "Can you do a long, hard homework problem?"...CT:"Oh, you must hate me" "5.9 and 2.1 really is 8...hmm..." "How many of you are tired?...Bless your souls, so am I. We're going to keep going though" "With a set you can turn a bunch of things into a thing bunch" "Name an element in the NULL set...correct!" "There was this guy and he had three sons and he said to them, 'I want you not to pick on each other when I'm gone'. <grumble, grumble> And he said go get a fruit, and they got it, and he said split it open, and there was a seed inside, and he said split it open, and he said 'what's in it', and they said 'nothing!' And the father said 'A-ha!'" "I love all those Zen stories. A guy meditates for five years and doesn't get it. Then WHAM, some guy beats it up and then he says 'I got it!'"
Math Jokes in Tests mathematicians and Other Scientists quotes, Sayings and Laws.math and Alcohol don't mix, so PLEASE DON'T DRINK AND DERIVE http://www.blich.ramat-gan.k12.il/subjects/math/jokes/quotes.htm
The NCTM Calls It "Math" As the first three quotes indicate, the NCTM endorses informal proofs (the useof concrete manipulatives ) for all K12 years Informal reasoning is not math. http://www.wgquirk.com/chap3.html
Extractions: The NCTM Still Calls it "Algebra" and "Geometry" The "Introduction" to the NCTM Standards claims that the 54 "standards" details what mathematics students need to know". Traditionalists will be puzzled by this claim. They won't find "focused, specific, basic, teachable, and measurable" math content for the K-12 years, and they won't find traditional K-12 math. They'll find the NCTM has redefined the meaning of "math", frequently emphasizing that traditional K-12 math content should receive "decreased attention". Hard as it is to believe, they want to eliminate traditional K-12 math content and substitute calculator skills, math appreciation, and a whole range of general, content-independent skills. They want to emphasize social goals and psychological considerations, not traditional math content. The NCTM wants you to believe that K-12 math should no longer cover the content that has been traditionally taught under the headings "arithmetic", "algebra", and "geometry". In the
Math 218 Quotes More Nuggets of Gunning Gold quotes from math 218, Spring 2001. It's known in thetrade as baby Rudin. (2/5/01). I'm not going to draw four dimensional spaces. http://www.princeton.edu/~poreto/qmat218.html
Extractions: Chern was a mathematician of outstanding geometric intuition. One day he was going to give a talk for some physicists. He was warned that the physicists didn't no that much math. He said that was fine. He began the talk: "Let us consider a circle centered at a point P. A circle is defined such that all points on the circle are at the same distance away from the center. So in this case, the distance from any point on the circle to P is the same. Now, consider a point Q on the circle with a vector bundle of rank r..."
ProfQuotes Student And what about the third kind? Shmuel Berger, math for Biology HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, Israel. Comments? page 1 of 14 (339 quotes) Next. http://www.profquotes.com/
Extractions: no doubt about it ! Math isn't just another four-letter word! Decimals have a point! Logic lives! Natural numbers are better for your health! The SQR( -1 ) stirs the imagination! Zero is more than nothing! A circle by any other name is just as round! Analysis takes it to the limit! Trigonometry is a sine of the times! Geometry is just plane fun! Start counting and let me know when you get to infinity! Math teachers know all the angles! Sphere not! A miss is as good as 1.62 kilometers! Life without geometry would be pointless! Percentages are one in a hundred! Compasses travel in the best circles! Catch the sine wave! Now you secant, now you don't! A graph is worth a thousand sets of data (or words)! Member of MADD: Mathematicians Against Deranged Deriving !
Math 450: Calculators And Quotes math 450 Library Home, math 450 Library. Calculators, quotes. http://www.math.wustl.edu/~kamberov/teach/s2000/m450/calc.html
List Of Math And Computer Quotes List of math and Computer quotes 'In mathematics, you never understandthings; you just get used to them. John von Neumann'; 'mathematics http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~andrusw/cgi-bin/zd/quote.html
Extractions: In mathematics, you never understand things; you just get used to them. - John von Neumann Mathematics is the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. - Bertrand Russell Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur. [Mathematics is written for mathematicians.] - Nicolaus Copernicus I understand mathematics, I just can't do proofs. Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. - Felix Klein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system. - Augarten, Stan ...it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. - Bernoulli, Jacques It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. - Carlyle, Thomas "Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." - Carroll, Lewis
Tom Parker's Computer/Math/Science Quotes List Page The Computer/math/Science quotes List Page. Calculate every possible destinationalong their last known trajectory Darth V. launches self-DoS. http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/palfrey/quotes/list.php3?category=1
Mathematical Quotation Server A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search Category Science math Recreations Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematicsand teaching mathematics Siméon Poisson. http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
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A Random Mathematical Quotation A Random Mathematical Quotation. Gilbert, WS (1836 1911) I'm verygood at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific http://math.furman.edu/cgi-bin/randquote.pl
