Morris Kline
Morris Kline
Morris Klinewas a Professor of Mathematics, a writer on the history, philosophy, and teaching of mathematics, and also a popularizer of mathematical subjects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1908
CountryUnited States of America
Morris Kline quotes about
beauty art form
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
knowledge math body
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
expression innovation groups
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory....
should-have practice paper
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
science reality order
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.
science definitions rigor
There is no rigorous definition of rigor.