A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
