John A. Van de Walle famous quotes

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.
-- John A. Van de Walle

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Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.
-- John A. Van de Walle

#Knowledge #Math #Logic

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.