Edward G. Begle quotes

Edward G. Begle quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.”
-- Edward G. Begle

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“To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
“There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.”

Source : "The invisible bankers". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated...”
“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of the mathematician himself.”
“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”
“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.”
“On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.”
“I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.”
“Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.”
“I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.”

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