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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-03-31

"A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformation of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs." -- Vannevar Bush, inventor and politician (b. 1890-03-11, d. 1974-06-30), "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly, July 1945

[Speaking of mathematicians, Descarte's birthday is today and Laplace's birthday was Friday.]

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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 02:39pm on 2008-03-31
The first thing I noticed about that quotation was that apparently, in 1945, there were no non-male mathematicians in Vannevar Bush's world. (I wonder what Ada Lovelace would have thought of that.)
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posted by (anonymous) at 09:21pm on 2008-04-07
Ditto.
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posted by [identity profile] syntonic-comma.livejournal.com at 09:23pm on 2008-04-07
How nice of LJ to let me post a comment even though it logged me out.
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