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From Quotes by Edward Kasner
- 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…
- 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.…
- . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange…
- 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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