Clotheslines Quote by Herbert Wilf Download Open image “A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.” — Herbert Wilf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clotheslines Display Function Hang ups Mathematics Numbers Sequence
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and… — P. Carey Reid Copy Share Image
“asterisks the number of times called for. Many crochet patterns are also broken down into rows (for flat crochet) and rounds (for circular crochet).… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence. — Richard McGuire Copy Share Image
Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed… — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like… — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. — George Lindsey Copy Share Image
I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black,… — Diamanda Galas Copy Share Image
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman,… — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with?… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image