Alfred North Whitehead Quote

No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series... the general ideas are never disclosed and thus the examples, which exemplify nothing, are reduced to silly trivialities.


An Introduction to Mathematics, Chapter 14 (p. 144), Oxford University Press, Inc. 1958


No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series... the general...

No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series... the general...

No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series... the general...

No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series... the general...