Steven G. Krantz Professions : MathematicianBorn : February 3, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Steven G. Krantz Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. Steven G. Krantz despairblackmath A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem. Steven G. Krantz confusedtryingscience This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even profound. The authors, writing for nonspecialists, take pains to explain technical ideas in nontechnical language, and the book should interest general readers as well as a large mathematical audience. Steven G. Krantz painhatebook Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematicianAll Authors
