A Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Stanislaw Ulam

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Stanislaw Ulam
American - Mathematician
April 13, 1909 - May 13, 1984

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

Nathan Myhrvold

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

Paul Ormerod

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Vladimir Arnold

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

Whitfield Diffie

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

Arthur Porges

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Sugata Mitra

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

Sophus Lie

The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason - these are very important.

Terence Tao

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

Nevil Shute

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

George Gamow

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

John von Neumann

A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.

William S. Knudsen

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Paul Dirac

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

Rajneesh

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Felix Klein

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