Jacob T. Schwartz Quote

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.


Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy, Chapter Three (p. 20)


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...

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...

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...

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...