[Rescued from my old blog.]
My computer and I seem to have come to a temporary truce: I pretend I’m never going to shut it off again, and it pretends it’s always going to come back if I do have to reboot. (Nope, no new computer in the offing at this point. We’re just at a cease fire here, until the next big thunderstorm throws a power outage at us…) So I thought it was high time for me to get back into the habit of blog posting.
And what better—or at least, what easier—way to get back into blogging that with a good quote or two? So here are my…
Mathematical Quotes of the Week
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem.
…and…
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as a systematic, deductive science; but mathematics in the making appears as an experimental, inductive science. Both aspects are as old as the science of mathematics itself.
—George Polya
How to Solve It
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 