Clifford Truesdell Professions : Mathematician Born : February 18, 1919 Died : January 14, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Clifford Truesdell There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. Clifford Truesdell fear funny science This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. Clifford Truesdell errors math giving How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. Clifford Truesdell swim science years Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors
