Heath, Thomas Little 1981 [originally published 1921] | Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists |
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"The Feynman Integral and Feynman's Operational Calculus" | Calculus is the study of change—how things change, and how quickly they change |
"Images of Mathematics Held by University Teachers of Mathematical Sciences".
16: "What do I mean by abstractness? , , sub "mathematics", "mathematic", "mathematics"• American Mathematical Society 1991 reprint | 1997 Statistics and Truth: Putting Chance to Work, World Scientific |
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, Bruno, Leonard 2003 [1999] |
The quote is Einstein's answer to the question: "How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? [I]t is first necessary to ask what is meant by mathematics in general.
29New York: Penguin Random House | "Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review" |
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You can point to a real live cow chewing its cud in a pasture and equate it with the letters c—o—w on the page | Shasha, Dennis Elliot; Lazere, Cathy A |
" This question was inspired by Eugene Wigner's paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
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