The best and worse
Inspired by the quotations in my math book, I went online and searched for others. Here are some of the best and worst I've found at this site: Math Quotes.Best:
"Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature." -- John Allen Paulos
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction." -- Tolstoy
Statistics put to the test fails (although infinite and a million are very different, so I guess my claim (and Silensky's) is not quite true):
"If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the Iliad." -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
Worst: (and believe me, there are many)
"Decimals have a point."
"Calculus has its limits."
"Geometry is just plane fun."
"Without geometry life is pointless."
posted by Steph @ 10:20 AM
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