Keith Devlin Quotes
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.
Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.
