And there I found a truly wonderful quote - "Mathematicians, when they work, engage in intensely serious play. They follow their curiosity into problems that interest them and toward the smell of a solution." Richard Preston, The New Yorker, April 11, 2005
I may have to add this to my repetoire.
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When I was in high school they had a teacher (PhD type) teaching the advanced math... to be specific the Calculus classes. A bunch of my friends took this class and said he was a lousy teacher.... why? Because...
He would present a problem on the board... make a mistake... stand there staring at the problem... and then, instead of correcting it and going on with the problem for the class... he'd wander off into thought and tell them - this would make an interesting proof... and then proceed to work out the "new" proof....
The only problem was - while that might work with very advanced students - when you're only just learning Calculus - this doesn't help at all... but it is funny.
LOL! I think this guy took following his curiosity a little too far.
Oddly, I find that quote to be quite applicable to what I do while blogging.
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