“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — 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
