Mrs. Byerly-Adams Math Class 2009-2010

04/13/09

“Nature’s great book is written in mathematics.”

                            ~ Galileo

02/02/09

“It is not enough to have a good mind.  The main thing is to use it well.”

                           ~Descartes

12/08/08

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

                         ~S. Gudder

11/03/08

 ”Small minds discuss persons.  Average minds discuss events.  Great minds discuss ideas.  Really great minds discuss mathematics.”

                          ~unknown

10/03/08

“Mathematical knowledge adds vigor to the mind, frees it from prejudice, credulity, and superstition.”

                           ~John Arbuthnot

9/03/08

“Black holes are where God divided by zero”

                          ~Stephen Wright

6/09/08

Pure mathematics is the world’s best poker game.  It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly.  It’s free.  It can be played anywhere – Archimedes did it in a bathtub. 

                         ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines

5/19/08

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns.   If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is becauase they are made with ideas.” 

                           ~G. H. Hardy

 3/10/08 

“There once was a young man from Trinity,

Who solved the square root of infinity. 

 While counting the digits,

He was seized by the fidgets,

Dropped science , and took up divinity.”

                        ~Author Unknown

1/14/08  “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.  The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. 

                    ~ Tolstoy

12/7/07 “Nature’s great book is written in mathematics”
                         ~Galileo

11/16/07 ” The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method,…”
                  ~Paul Halmos

10/15/07  “Mathematics must be written into the mind, not read into it.  “No head for mathematics” nearly always means “Will not use a pencil.”

                ~Arthur Latham Baker

10/01/07  Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.  

                          ~Tobias Dantzig 

9/17/07  “Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.”

                           ~John Allen Paulos

9/10/07  “Mathematics is not a spectator sport!”