"Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some……" — Paul Halmos

"Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation."

— Paul Halmos

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26 Quotes by Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability…
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch…
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call…
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every…
The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems…
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the…
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I…
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or…
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small…

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More Creation Quotes

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone… — Michele Bachmann
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is… — Alain Badiou
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of… — Ansel Adams
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then… — Gary Bauer
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic… — Bob Beauprez
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But,… — Bob Beauprez

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