Ivor Grattan-Guinness quotes
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“Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.”
-- Ivor Grattan-GuinnessSource : "Non-Newtonian Calculus", Middlesex Math Notes, 1977.
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“It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.”
-- Ivor Grattan-GuinnessSource : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 400, 2000.
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“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”
-- Ivor Grattan-GuinnessSource : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 739, 2000.
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“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.”
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“From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.”
-- Ivor Grattan-GuinnessSource : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 127, 200.
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Source : Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”
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“Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.”
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“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.”
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“The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up”
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“Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do”
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