“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols…It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt and become liquid and just as rivers can, from the most humble beginnings,… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, by placing our fingers on a given problem, no matter how trite or pedestrian it apparently seems, we may end up measuring… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
