Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Steven G. Krantz

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Steven G. Krantz

Steven George Krantz is an American scholar, mathematician, and writer. He has authored more than 280 research papers and more than 135 books. Additionally, Krantz has edited journals such as the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and The Journal of Geometric Analysis.

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.
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
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
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.
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