Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes
Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. In mathematics the numbers can count people, autos, sins, molecules, or paintings. The mathematician does not know or care. And the mathematics is the same regardless. And the fundamentals themselves are unknown. For example, what is a number? It’s not the symbol we write; that is a numeral. Some say that it is an abstract idea that represents a quantity like 5. But what is 5? That itself is an abstraction. So few mathematicians and no layman know what they are talking about when they do mathematics. Lord Russell, with his colleague Whitehead, built up a system where they could define a number as a set with certain properties. But they take 3 large volumes full of equations in a small type font to just get to 3rd grade arithmetic and knowing what they are talking about. In politics, we also often do not know what we are talking about, but that is for a much simpler set of reasons.
Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
