Chapters Quote by Brandon McCaw

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...

— Paul Halmos

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to…

— Anya Kamenetz

My father taught only math.

— John Updike

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

— Danica McKellar

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

— Augusten Burroughs

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a…

— Bill Gates

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no…

— Clarence Thomas

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And…

— Anonymous