Ian Stewart Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. September 24, 1945
Birthday: September 24
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.
topic: Beauty, Art, Block, Differential Equations, Visual Imagery
