Paul Halmos Quotes - Page 2

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• A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
  surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
  better.

  Paul Halmos

  Clever, Students, Graduates

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• The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.

  Paul Halmos

  Self, Littles, Today

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• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Errors, Trial And Error

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Teacher, Math

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• ... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Giving, Lines

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• If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

  Paul Halmos

  Science, Government, Half

  Paul Richard Halmos, John Ewing, F.W. Gehring (1991). “PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics”, p.14, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

  Paul Halmos

  Space, Algebra, Seasoning

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

  Paul Halmos

  Important, Computer, Mathematics

  Paul Richard Halmos, John Ewing, F.W. Gehring (1991). “PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics”, p.19, Springer Science & Business Media

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