"The universe is a far more beautiful and elegant place than any of us can imagine. We must be ready and able to both construct and use mathematics to help explain ever more subtle aspects of it, and the phrase `I will never use it' should be deleted from our students' vocabularies."
Jim Milgram
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to share it with some people.
ReplyDeleteI'll shoot an email to Barry if he doesn't see this.
ReplyDeleteI think it came from an email he had written me. But he has given permission to use the quote.
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