“If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.” IfsThinkingMenWorldGivingHumansArtScienceAsksGivenNaturalAnswersStreetsMankindHe ManDisciplineEssentialsMathematicsAddExcellentDaily LifeSignificanceApplicationEngineeringMathematicianSelf DisciplineNatural ScienceExact Sciences Author:Cassius Jackson Keyser
“[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.” MindMatterWholeScienceSpiritCertainTeachingBearsMathematicsAssumingMathematicalFacultyDisputes Author:Cassius Jackson Keyser
“Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.” WorldStatesProblemScienceEducationIdealsMathematicsAbstractDetached Author:Cassius Jackson Keyser
