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Richard Wesley Hamming, né le 11 février 1915 à Chicago et décédé le 7 janvier 1998 à Monterey est un mathématicien célèbre à qui on doit les codes de Hamming et la distance de Hamming.

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✵ 11. février 1915 – 7. janvier 1998
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Richard Hamming: Citations en anglais

“Continuous distributions are basic to the theory of probability and statistics, and the calculus is necessary to handle them with any ease.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“In the long run, the methods are the important part of the course. It is not enough to know the theory; you should be able to apply it.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Calculus systematically evades a great deal of numerical calculation.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Often it is not physical limitations… but rather it is human made laws, habits, and organizational rules, regulations, personal egos, and inertia, which dominate the evolution of the future.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. […] The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. […] The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after.”

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You and Your Research (1986)

“The feeling of having free will is deep in us and we are reluctant to give it up for ourselves—but we are often willing to deny it to others!”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“We are beginning to find not only is intelligence not adequately defined so arguments can be settled scientifically, but a lot of other associated words like, computer, learning, information, ideas, decisions, expert behavior—all are a bit fuzzy…”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“We must not forget, in all the enthusiasm for computer simulations, occasionally we must look at Nature as She is.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Besides the theory there are a lot of small technical details that must be learned so well that you can recall them almost instantaneously, such as the trigonometric identities… put one part of the identity on one side of a 3 x 5 card and the other part on the other side. Using these flash cards you can, in the odd moments of your daily life, learn the mechanical parts of the course. …for this kind of low-level material many short learning sessions are much more efficient than a few long, intense ones; but this is not necessarily true for larger ideas. …most students will not use such trivial devices as flash cards; it seems to be beneath their dignity. They suffer accordingly.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“It is not easy to become an educated person.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Most mathematics books are filled with finished theorems and polished proofs, and to a surprising extent they ignore the methods used to create mathematics. It is as if you merely walked through a picture gallery and never told how to mix paints, how to compose pictures, or all the other "tricks of the trade."”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”

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Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (1962) Preface

“Although textbooks (and professors) like to make definite statements indicating that they know what they are talking about, there is in fact a great deal of uncertainty and ambiguity in the world. …we will not evade this question but rather explore (overexplore?) it. …great progress is often made when what was long believed to be true is now seen to be perhaps not the whole truth. Thus the text often uses words… to cause you to think about the uncertainess and even the arbitrariness of much of our current conventions and definitions, to ponder about your acceptance of them.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Unfortunately… the ADA language was designed by experts, and it shows all the non-humane features you can expect from them. It is… a typical Computer Science hacking job—do not try and understand what you are doing, just get it running. As a result of this poor psychological design… although a government contract may specify the programming be in ADA, probably over 90% will be done in FORTRAN, debugged, tested, and then painfully, by hand, be converted to a poor ADA program, with a high probability of errors!”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark, "Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think," surprise you?”

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

“Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.”

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Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might be applicable, and the artificial divisions seem to vanish.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Faced with almost an infinity of details you cannot afford to deal constantly with the specific; you must learn to embrace more and more detail under the cover of generality.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“You live in an age that is dominated by science and engineering. …Thus if you wish to be effective in the world and to achieve the things that you want, it is necessary to understand both science and engineering”

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and those require mathematics
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“We are mainly interested in the processes… not… in presenting mathematics in its most abstract form. …we will often begin with concrete forms and then exhibit the process of abstraction.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“There are so many ways of being wrong and so few ways of being right that it is much more economical to study successes.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.”

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Emphatic capitalization in original.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

“The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Since I was trying to teach "style" of thinking in science and engineering, and "style" is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts—once the fundamentals have been learned. How to become a great painter cannot be taught in words… Art teachers usually let the advanced student paint, and then make suggestions… more or less as the points arise in the student's head—which is where learning is supposed to occur!”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Any unwillingness to learn mathematics today can greatly restrict your possibilities tomorrow.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“The Buddha told his disciples, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense". I say the same to you—you must assume the responsibility for what you believe.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Formal proofs, where there is deliberately no meaning, can convince only formalists, and of the results they themselves seem to deny any meaning. Is that to be the mathematics we are to use to understand the world we live in?”

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Source: Mathematics on a Distant Planet (1998), p. 645

“It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

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