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Benjamin Finkel
(5 Jul 1865 - 5 Feb 1947)
American mathematician and author who founded The American Mathematical Monthly first published in Jan 1894. He is also remembered for Mathematical Solution Book written 1888, published 1893.
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Science Quotes by Benjamin Finkel (1 quote)
The solution of problems is one of the lowest forms of mathematical research, … yet its educational value cannot be overestimated. It is the ladder by which the mind ascends into higher fields of original research and investigation. Many dormant minds have been aroused into activity through the mastery of a single problem.
— Benjamin Finkel
With co-editor J. M. Colaw, Editorial introducing the first issue of The American Mathematical Monthly (Jan 1894), 1, No. 1, 2.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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