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Rewards in Math are plenty But this obstacle looms big: How can you shine in calculus If you won't learn any trig?

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Some years ago, after I had given a talk, somebody said, "You seem to make mathematics sound like so much fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?" I am proud of the sentiment, even if it is overstated.

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Consider the Pitiful Plight Of a runner who wasn't too bright, But sprinted so fast He vanished at last By red-shifting himself out of sight.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ralph P. Boas Jr.

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

Born: August 8, 1912
Died: July 25, 1992 (aged 79)
Bio: Ralph Philip Boas Jr. was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Known for:
  1. A primer of real functions (1960)
  2. Invitation to complex analysis (1987)
  3. Lion hunting & other mathematical pursuits
  4. Polynomial Expansions of Analytic Functions (1958)
  5. Entire functions (1954)

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