"Maths is not sums, calculations and formulae.
In the academic world, as in the world at large, there are data, statistics, charts, correlations and formulae.
Maths becomes beautiful through the power and elegance of its arguments and formulae; through the bridges it builds between previously unconnected worlds.
There are comedic rules and formulae and, while these tenets should be respected, especially by a newcomer, perversely you can still succeed by openly contradicting them.
Like the great David Hume, Williams conveyed an exhilarating and exhilarated sense of a young man thinking unhampered by preconceptions and formulae with a vertiginously free deftness.
Even when the findings are inconsistent, even contradictory, we have tried to frame policies whose effects can be best measured by more data, statistics, charts, correlations and formulae.
It's hard not to: Kahneman's approach to psychology spurns heart-sinking tables and formulae in favour of short, intriguing questions that elegantly illustrate the ways our intuitions mislead us.
Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
Class time is spent on problem-solving, discussion and group work, while the absorption of facts and formulae is left for homework.
Fang shi practiced divination and claimed to possess secret texts and formulae.
Fang shi practiced medicine and divination and claimed to possess secret texts and formulae.
