 Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgment is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones, in other words it can only act by suppressing originality.  An Introduction to Mathematics - 139. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 434 lapas
...modern mathematics is necessary for accuracy, ... it is necessary for research. It makes for clearness of thought and for fertility in trying new combinations...words it can only act by suppressing originality. — WHITEHEAD, AN Introduction to Mathematics (New York, 1911), p. 167. 640. Mathematicians attach... | |
 | Paul Anthony Samuelson - 1966 - 1062 lapas
...old-fangled logical positivist would 1 Cf. AN Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911), p. 157: 'Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master....words it can only act by suppressing originality.' 2 Some will hold the same things can be said about the Rueffs and Cassels of this world, who, whatever... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 506 lapas
...modern mathematics is necessary for accuracy, ... it is necessary for research. It makes for clearness of thought and for fertility in trying new combinations...words it can only act by suppressing originality. Introduction to Mathematical Science (p. 157) It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 lapas
...to save it from such surprises. In Jean-Pierre Luminet Black Holes (p. 182) Whitehead, Alfred North Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master....words it can only act by suppressing originality. An Introduction to Mathematics Chapter 11 (p. 116) CONSULTATION Halle, John When thou arte callde at... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 390 lapas
...to save it from such surprises. In Jean-Pierre Luminet Black Holes (p. 182) Whitehead, Alfred North Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master....words it can only act by suppressing originality. An Introduction to Mathematics Chapter 11 (p. 116) COMMUNICATION Casimir, Hendrik EG There exists today... | |
 | T.V. Loudon - 2000 - 160 lapas
...which we can perform without thinking about them". But elsewhere (as quoted by Laszlo, 1972) he wrote: "in creative thought, common sense is a bad master....sole criterion for judgment is that the new ideas should look like the old ones ..." and "... the true method of philosophical construction is to frame... | |
 | Denis Weaire, Tomaso Aste - 2008 - 216 lapas
...to time, even in crystallography. They often result in Nobel Prizes. As Alfred North Whitehead said, "In creative thought common sense is a bad master....-words it can only act by suppressing originality." Mathematics does not consist entirely of theorems. There is a rough texture of conjecture and useful... | |
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