Richard Hamming Quote

It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.


Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)


It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of...

It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of...

It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of...

It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of...