Carl Benjamin Boyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
-- Carl Benjamin Boyer

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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.
My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms.
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Carl Benjamin Boyer famous quotes

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