Jacob T. Schwartz Quotes

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In this quest for simplification, mathematics stands to computer science as diamond mining to coal mining. The former is a search for gems.... The latter is permanently involved with bulldozing large masses of ore - extremely useful bulk material.

Jacob T. Schwartz
Give a mathematician a situation which is the least bit ill-defined - he will first of all make it well defined. Perhaps appropriately, but perhaps also inappropriately.

Jacob T. Schwartz
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal, or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

Jacob T. Schwartz
For as long as we have a record of man's curiosity and quest for understanding we find mathematics cultivated and cherished, practiced and taught. Throughout the ages it has stood as an ultimate in rational thought and as a monument to man's desire to probe the workings of his own mind.

Jacob T. Schwartz
On leafing through the collected papers of great mathematicians, one notices how few of their ideas have received adequate attention. It is like entering a hothouse and being struck by a species of flowers whose existence we did not even suspect.

Jacob T. Schwartz
Computer science, a new addition to the fraternity of sciences, confronts its older brothers, mathematics and engineering, with an adolescent brashness born of rapid, confident growth and perhaps also of enthusiastic inexperience.

Jacob T. Schwartz
Mathematicians, like Proust and everyone else, are at their best when writing about their first love.

Jacob T. Schwartz
To find the simple in the complex, the finite in the infinite - that is not a bad description of the aim and essence of mathematics.

Jacob T. Schwartz
Whatever one may think about engineers, one must admit they write clearly, to the point, and engagingly. They have realized long ago that if you wish the reader to follow rather than decipher, the linear deductive technique of exposition is the worst.

Jacob T. Schwartz