Эрик Темпл Белл цитаты

Эрик Темпл Белл — американский математик и автор научно-фантастических книг. Эрик Белл публиковал свои работы в начале творческой деятельности под псевдонимом Джон Тейн. В честь учёного названы полиномы Белла.

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“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth”

Источник: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 291
Контексте: Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.

“I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.”

Источник: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 274
Контексте: Some, of my unmathematical friends have incautiously urged me to include a note about the origin of modern calculating machines. This is the proper place to do so, as the Queen of queens has enslaved a few of these infernal things to do some of her more repulsive drudgery. What I shall say about these marvelous aids to the feeble human intelligence will be little indeed, for two reasons: I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

“Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.”

Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 23-24. (1949), p. 161
Контексте: Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Then, in the alleged proof, be alert for inexplicit assumptions. Euclid's notorious oversights drove this lesson home.

“The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”

Eric Temple Bell книга Men of Mathematics

Men of Mathematics (1937)
Контексте: The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.<!--1986 ed., p. 488

“Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.”

Источник: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 226
Контексте: Some of his deepest discoveries were reasoned out verbally with very few if any symbols, and those for the most part mere abbreviations of words. Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

“The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future;”

Источник: The Development of Mathematics (1940), p. 283
Контексте: The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future; and should analysis ever appear to be without or blemish, its perfection might only be that of death.

“Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler.”

Источник: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 146
Контексте: Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler. As was observed a little way back, the kernel of Plücker's theory of geometric dimensionality is that the dimensionality of a given space is not an absolute constant, but depends upon the elements, accepted as irreducible, in terms of which the space is described.

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