Richard Hamming - Calculus Quotes

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Calculus is the mathematics of change.... Change is characteristic of the world.

Richard Hamming
The calculus is probably the most useful single branch of mathematics.... I have found the ability to do simple calculus, easily and reliably, was the most valuable part of mathematics I ever learned.

Richard Hamming
Understanding the methods of calculus is vital to the creative use of mathematics... Without this mastery the average scientist or engineer, or any other user of mathematics, will be perpetually stunted in development, and will at best be able to follow only what the textbooks say; with mastery, new things can be done, even in old, well-established fields.

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Continuous distributions are basic to the theory of probability and statistics, and the calculus is necessary to handle them with any ease.

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Increasingly... the application of mathematics to the real world involves discrete mathematics... the nature of the discrete is often most clearly revealed through the continuous models of both calculus and probability. Without continuous mathematics, the study of discrete mathematics soon becomes trivial and very limited.... The two topics, discrete and continuous mathematics, are both ill served by being rigidly separated.

Richard Hamming
Calculus systematically evades a great deal of numerical calculation.

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