- An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible quantities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity.--Howard W. Even
This quote explains that it takes an amazing imagination and a true special way of thinking to solve some math problems. It also says that patience is one quantity that an expert problem solver needs. Some problems can take days, months, even years to figure out but persistence is key when trying to solve mathematical problems.
- It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.—GK Chesterton
Sometimes finding the problem is just as difficult as finding the solution. Mathematics is a science. You must find the problems inside of the problem in order to find the solution.
- If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.—John Louis von Neumann
Mathematics is a simple concept when you look at the big picture of life and how difficult life can be. Life itself makes Math look easy because it can be so complex and unknown at times.
All quotes from: https://www.math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html
This quote explains that it takes an amazing imagination and a true special way of thinking to solve some math problems. It also says that patience is one quantity that an expert problem solver needs. Some problems can take days, months, even years to figure out but persistence is key when trying to solve mathematical problems.
- It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.—GK Chesterton
Sometimes finding the problem is just as difficult as finding the solution. Mathematics is a science. You must find the problems inside of the problem in order to find the solution.
- If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.—John Louis von Neumann
Mathematics is a simple concept when you look at the big picture of life and how difficult life can be. Life itself makes Math look easy because it can be so complex and unknown at times.
All quotes from: https://www.math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html