David Eugene Smith Quote

If we are to teach mathematics at all, real success is not possible unless we know that the subject is beautiful as well as useful.


The Poetry of Mathematics and Other Essays, Chapter I (p. 10), Scripta Mathematica. 1934


If we are to teach mathematics at all, real success is not possible unless we know that the subject is beautiful as well as useful.

If we are to teach mathematics at all, real success is not possible unless we know that the subject is beautiful as well as useful.

If we are to teach mathematics at all, real success is not possible unless we know that the subject is beautiful as well as useful.

If we are to teach mathematics at all, real success is not possible unless we know that the subject is beautiful as well as useful.