"Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention." — Richard Courant
"Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention."
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Richard Courant
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9 Quotes by Richard Courant
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and…
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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the…
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Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of…
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With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality,…
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Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
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With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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More Analytic Quotes
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…
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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And…
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in…
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel…
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This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In…
— Stephen Shore
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our…
— Sigmund Freud
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We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
— Unknown Author
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
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— John Ashcroft
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...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic…
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