Calculus Quotes

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One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of… — Richard Courant
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete. — David Mumford
Everything tries to be round. — Black Elk
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that… — Edward Mills Purcell
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of… — Sophus Lie
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — Bertrand Russell
Probability is the very guide of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away. — Paul Brodeur
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? — Francois Le Lionnais
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product… — Richard Courant
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with… — William Stanley Jevons
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand. — Bill Cosby
"I see it, but I don't believe it." — Richard Dedekind
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable. — Norman Cousins
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota

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