Partial Differential Quotes
- How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
- "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,… — Arthur Porges
- We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. — Nathan Myhrvold
- I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology… — Whitfield Diffie