Lublin, Poland

Mathematics for Teachers

Matematyka dla nauczycieli

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Mathematics for Teachers at ANS Lublin

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: mathematics and statistics
University website: vpu.edu.pl

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Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change. It has no generally accepted definition.
Mathematics
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (London 1941).. Quotations by Hardy. Gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved on 27 November 2013..
Teachers
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20, "Failure".
Teachers
A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
William Shenstone, The School Mistress, Stanza 28.
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