Professional Mathematicians Quotes
- Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
- So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically… — Keith Devlin