Ivar Ekeland Quote

It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research concentrated on integrable systems, each feeding the other, until in the end we had no longer the tools nor the interest for studying nonintegrable systems.


Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 84. - The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)


It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research...

It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research...

It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research...

It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research...