Stats
25,309
reputation
50k
reached
21
answers
10
questions
Loading…
About
If he had been a great and wise philosopher... he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain —
The point of all this is not the reduction of the familiar to the unfamiliar... but the extension of the familiar to cover many more cases.
— from Categories for the Working Mathematician by Saunders MacLane —
Of these three approaches, the last is in many ways the least satisfactory; it is, however, the one that we shall for the most part take.
— from "Lecture 9" of Representation Theory: A First Course by William Fulton and Joe Harris —
Badges
View all badges
This user doesn’t have any gold badges yet.
21
silver badges
-
Civic DutyJul 5, 2019
-
PunditAug 19, 2013
-
EnthusiastJul 24, 2013
Top tags
View all tags
8
Score
14
Posts
45
Posts %
4
Score
1
Posts
3
Posts %
0
Score
19
Posts
61
Posts %
0
Score
1
Posts
3
Posts %
0
Score
1
Posts
3
Posts %
0
Score
1
Posts
3
Posts %
Top network posts
View all network posts