Mathematical and Technical Quotes

[Daniel Duffy]

"Looking it up in a book is giving up."

Paul R. Halmos

 

[vertigo]

"young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. you just get used to them. " von neumann

"if people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realise how complicated life is." von neumann

"an approximate answer to the right problem is worth more than an exact answer to an approximate problem." tukey

"rigour is to mathematicians what morality is to men." weil

"information is the resolution of uncertainty." shannon

"the shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." hadamard

i cannot resist plugging in a few from hardy...

"it is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. by definition, there are already enough people to do that."

"young men should prove theorems. old men should write books."

"beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

 

[Daniel Duffy]

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

Cornelius Lanczos


Read Euler: he is our master in everything.

Laplace

 

[Daniel Duffy]

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...

Paul Halmos