Academics.utep.edu/math > Home Cristina Torres, graduate math MAT student, has been chosen as the Graduate SchoolBanner Bearer for the Spring 2005 commencement. Congratulations, Cristina http://academics.utep.edu/math/
MS: A Math Website Then create your own great quote about some aspect of math. Share it with yourteacher, then display it in the math Quote Corner on the bulletin board. http://students.resa.net/stoutcomputerclass/1math.htm
Mathematics Quotes Mathematics quotes. Mathematics quotes. Edited by Peter Y. Chou.MC Escher (18981972) Bond of Union (1956). Logic is invincible because in order to http://www.wisdomportal.com/MathQuotes.html
The Bartlett Collection math. Albert Einstein 18791955. God does not care about our mathematicaldifficulties. He integrates empirically. Izaak Walton 1593-1683 http://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/quote/math.htm
Extractions: (God made the integers, man made the rest.) Roger Bacon (c. 1214-c.1294) If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics. Galileo Galilei Philosophy is written in this grand book I mean the universe which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. Alastair Reid 'Counting': Ounce, dice, trice, quartz, sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, denim.
Quotes On Mathematics quotes On Mathematics. A mathematical truth is neither simple nor complicated initself, it is. Emile Lemoine. The science of Pure Mathematics, http://members.cox.net/mathmistakes/quotes.htm
Extractions: Quotes On Mathematics A mathematical truth is neither simple nor complicated in itself, it is. - Emile Lemoine The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit - A. N. Whitehead A mathematician who is not also a poet will never be a complete mathematician. - Karl Weierstrass I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me. - Goethe Mathematicians are like lovers... Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. - Fontenelle It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. - Augustus De Morgan I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer such a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are. - A. N. Whitehead Numbers rule the Universe. - Pythagoras
The NCTM Calls It "Math" How the NCTM has redefined the mearning of math. As the first three quotesindicate, the NCTM endorses informal proofs (the use of concrete http://www.wgquirk.com/chap3.html
Extractions: The NCTM Still Calls it "Algebra" and "Geometry" The "Introduction" to the NCTM Standards claims that the 54 "standards" details what mathematics students need to know". Traditionalists will be puzzled by this claim. They won't find "focused, specific, basic, teachable, and measurable" math content for the K-12 years, and they won't find traditional K-12 math. They'll find the NCTM has redefined the meaning of "math", frequently emphasizing that traditional K-12 math content should receive "decreased attention". Hard as it is to believe, they want to eliminate traditional K-12 math content and substitute calculator skills, math appreciation, and a whole range of general, content-independent skills. They want to emphasize social goals and psychological considerations, not traditional math content. The NCTM wants you to believe that K-12 math should no longer cover the content that has been traditionally taught under the headings "arithmetic", "algebra", and "geometry". In the
Jerry Uhl's Favorite Quotations When you want a student to learn about math, do you give a great lecture, The math professors refused to say even a few words to engineering students http://www.dougshaw.com/uhl/
Extractions: Jerry Uhl's favorite quotations I attended a very interesting talk at the AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings in January of the year 2000. The speaker was Jerry Uhl, a professor I've known since I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois in the late 80's. It was titled Following Descartes' advice and teaching to the gut , which didn't mean a lot to me, but it was provocative, and in the middle of the AMS Special Session on Philosophies in Mathematics Education. His talks are always interesting and thought provoking, so I went. Jerry started his talk this way, (and I am paraphrasing) "I wrote down a list of things I wanted to say today. I realized then that other people have already said them, and better than I could. So I would like to share their words with you." The rest of the talk consisted of Jerry reading other people's words, occasionally commenting or challenging us to guess their authors. The talk worked; and afterwards I asked him if I could put the quotations up on my website to provoke others. He assented. One caveat: I don't agree with every quotation below. In fact, I disagree with many of them. But what you will see below gave me a lot to think about, and I hope it gives other educators a lot to think about as well.
Eric's Mathematical Quotations to read them all to assure yourself of getting the ones you like, and theyare all worth reading. For less serious thoughts, try my math jokes page. http://edp.org/MathQuotes.html
Extractions: Path: Eric's Site Math Quotations Related: Quotations , Math Quotations, Atheism Quotations Site Map Some of these quotations are funny or quirky, some are profound, some are informative, some are about the beauty in mathematics, and many are combinations of two or more of these. This confounds my desire about what to list first; many of the quotations tug at me to be listed before others. So they are in no particular order. You will have to read them all to assure yourself of getting the ones you like, and they are all worth reading. For less serious thoughts, try my math jokes page Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. (In P. J. Davis and R. Hersh
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5points Art Mathematics Science - Quotations 5points art mathematics science presents here a selection of quotations by notedvisual artists, mathematicians and scientists. http://www.5points.com/library/5quotes.htm
Quotations We have included quotations from many of the mathematicians in our archive.You can access them from the individual biographies. You can search the files of http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/
Extractions: We have included quotations from many of the mathematicians in our archive. You can access them from the individual biographies. You can search the files of quotations using the form below. Enter a word or phrase: Here is a list of those mathematicians who have quotations. The number in brackets is the number of quotations. A Abel
