Mathematics: People - Problems - Results, Vol II
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1984-01-01
- Publisher
- Wadsworth International
- Retrieved
- Aug 30, 2011
- ISBN
- 0534032036
- EAN
- 9780534032036
2 memes from this reference
Mathematicians Cannot Discuss their Work
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
Mathematicians Must be Adventurers
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material—these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being…