Top 5 Howard Whitley Eves Quotes
#1. A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
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#2. How are you going to teach logic in a world where everybody talks about the sun setting, when it's really the horizon rising?
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#3. We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.
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#4. It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps ... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.
Howard Whitley Eves
#5. A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.
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