Edward Kasner Quotes
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The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
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Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
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The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.
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Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
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When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But…
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Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.…
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
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. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange…
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There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i…
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Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made…
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