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Edward Charles Titchmarsh
(1 Jun 1899 - 18 Jan 1963)
English mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Edward Charles Titchmarsh (6 quotes)
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter as it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Attributed. Quoted in Nicholas J. Rose, Mathematical Maxims and Minims (1988). (Primary source needed. Can you help?)
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Attributed.
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Attributed. Quoted in Nicholas J. Rose, Mathematical Maxims and Minims (1988). (Primary source needed. Can you help?)
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
In Mathematics for the General Reader (1959, 2017), 21.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Quoted in a space filler, without citation, in The Pentagon: A Mathematics Magazine for Students (Fall 1951), 11, No. 1, 12. Primary source needed (can you help).
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Attributed.
See also:
- 1 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Titchmarsh's birth.
- Theory of Functions, by Edward Charles Titchmarsh. - book suggestion.
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.
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