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It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in spite of the fact that it is perfectly correct, does not in any way have to be enlightening. Thus, mathematicians, and mathematics students, are faced with two problems: the generation of proofs, and the generation of internal enlightenment. To understand a theorem requires enlightenment. If one has enlightenment, one knows in one's soul why a particular theorem must be true.


Herbert S. Gaskill


#inspirational #mathematics #inspirational

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.


Ellen Ochoa


#calculus #college #continue #encouraged #go

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, "Where is the calculus in this experience?


Jennifer Ouellette


#life-lessons #mathematics #experience

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.


Kit Williams


#course #differential #his #inventor #newton

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.


Scott Hamilton


#i #interested #more #skating #than

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.


Marvin Minsky


#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.


Elizabeth Moon


#flunked #hard #major #physics #rice

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.


Elizabeth Moon


#calculus #came #degree #first #flunked

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.


Henri Poincare


#calculus #deep #different #different parts #existing

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.


Thomas Sydenham


#disease #entertain #frequently #gout #kidney






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