“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”

— Richard Hamming

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: 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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American mathematician and information theorist 1915–1998

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

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

“Mastery of content that is measurable, tangible, and translates into respect.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 210

“Spiritual mastery is never easy. It takes much more time and personal application than physical development does. Spirtual mastery, however, is the path we are all on. Some of us simply do not choose to believe it.”

Scott Shaw (1958) American actor

The Warrior is Silent

“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Source: The Archaic Revival

“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts.”

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) French economist

§ 39
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1766)
Context: All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.