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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 (2 quotes)
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
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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).
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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