George Pólya Quote

Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles?... He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there is not trigonometry; that without trigonometry we put back the clock millennia to Standard Darkness Time and antedate the Greeks.


Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)


Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles?... He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there ...

Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles?... He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there ...

Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles?... He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there ...

Why should the typical student be interested in those wretched triangles?... He is to be brought to see that without the knowledge of triangles there ...