James R Newman Quotes
- The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
- Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists…
- The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
- In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.
- The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of…
- The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained…
- To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate…
- Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there…
- When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of…