MESSAGES on MATHEMATICS

MESSAGES on MATHEMATICS

1.      A mathematician knows how to solve a problem he cannot solve it. – Milne

2.      Analysis and natural philosophy owe their most important discoveries to this fruitful means which is called induction. Newton was indebted to it for his theorem of the Binomial and the Principle of universal gravity. – Laplace

3.      Everybody of discovery is mathematical in form because there is no other guidance we can have. – Darwin

4.      Geometry as a logical system is a means and even the most powerful means to make children feel the strength of the human spirit that is of their own spirit. – H Freudenthal

5.      In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest. – G H Hardy

6.      Let the relation of knowledge to real life be very visible to your pupils and let them understand how by knowledge the world could be transformed. – Bertrand Russell

7.      Mathematics is a most exact science and its conclusions are capable of absolute proofs. – C P Steinmetz

8.      Mathematics is both the queen and the hand maiden of all sciences. – E T Bell

9.      Mathematics is the art of saying many things in many different ways. – Maxwell

10.  Mathematics is the indispensable instrument of all physical research. – Berthelot

11.  Mathematics is the queen of Sciences and Arithmetic is the queen of Mathematics. – Gauss

12.  Statistics may be rightly called the science of averages and their estimates. – A L Bowley & A L Boddington

13.  There are few things which we know which are not capable of mathematical reasoning and when these cannot, it is a sign that our knowledge of them is very small and confused. – Arthenbot

14.  Where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it is as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a candle in your hand. – John Arbuthnot

15.  With the calculus as a key, mathematics can be successfully applied to the explanation of the course of nature. – Whitehead

Famous Mathematicians

1.      George Cantor (1845-1918)

2.      G W Leibnitz (1646-1716)

3.      Arya Bhatt (476-550)

4.      G Plano (1858-1932)

5.      W R Hamilton (1805-1865)

6.      Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705)

7.      Blasé Pascal (1623-1662)

8.      Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

9.      Apollonius (262 B C -190 B C)

10.  Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

11.  Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

12.  Karl Pearson (1857-1936)

13.  Kolmogrov (1903-1987)

14.  George Boole (1815-1864)