Paul Lockhart

Quotes

• “So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other ...”
• “The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out ...”
• “In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something pra...”
• “... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imagin...”
• “No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is ...”
• “If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians...”
• “SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run t...”
• “It is the story that matters not just the ending.”
• “Mathematics is the art of explanation.”