"The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of……" — Edward Mills Purcell
"The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance."
More Calculus Quotes
- Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation… — James Clerk Maxwell
- Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as… — Alan Dershowitz
- I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not… — Frederick The Great
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- [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
- We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles,… — Heinrich Burkhardt
- The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory… — Stephen Smale
- The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of… — Marshall A. Cohen
- Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith
- The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it… — John von Neumann
- Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of… — Mary Somerville