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Keith Devlin Quotes

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers Picture Quote #1

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle Picture Quote #1

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation Picture Quote #1

In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance Picture Quote #1

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small Picture Quote #1

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics Picture Quote #1

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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience Picture Quote #1

The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work Picture Quote #1

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs Picture Quote #1

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The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers (Keith Devlin Quotes) Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle. (Keith Devlin Quotes) A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. (Keith Devlin Quotes) In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance. (Keith Devlin Quotes) Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small (Keith Devlin Quotes) Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics (Keith Devlin Quotes) Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience (Keith Devlin Quotes) The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work (Keith Devlin Quotes) Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs (Keith Devlin Quotes)