Keith Devlin Quotes
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I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and…
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures…
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Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to…
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The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
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The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically…
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What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of…
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For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is…
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Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is…
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There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
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Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
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The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In…
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What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number."…
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last…
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