Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hyman Bass

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mathematician Hyman Bass.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Hyman Bass

Hyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959 to 1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University. He is currently the Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student. — © Hyman Bass
Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.
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