"The only way to learn mathematics is to…" — Paul Halmos

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

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26 Quotes by Paul Halmos

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