Dean schlicter biography
Charles Sumner Slichter (April 16, – October 4, ) was an applied mathematician and dean of the graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dean Schlicter is a renowned American physicist and mathematician.!
Different people would gave different answers of the above title. A student in elementary school would probably say it was about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
Oh yes— about functions and decimals too. A student in high school would probably say that it is about learning rules and formulas to solve equations. Oh yes— and learning rules and formulas in geometry too. I am afraid that all too many students of calculus would also say that mathematic is about rules and formulas and impossible word problems and getting the right answers by right method.
Jeanette's favorite math quote is, Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics, from Dean Schlicter.Then, since most people lose contact with mathematics after high school or after calculus, the average citizen keep a limited view of mathematic for a life time. That is too bad because answers are not complete and we should not carry around in our heads any more delusions or distorted views of reality than we have to.
Now I gave some definitions of mathematics by some renowned persons:
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