Richard Hamming Quote

We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is taught)... There is also a deliberate policy to force you to think abstractly... it is only through abstraction that any reasonable amount of useful mathematics can be covered. There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.


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


We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is...

We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is...

We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is...

We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is...