Saturday, March 8, 2014

Lars P. Syll — Advice on mathematics for Ph. D. students


Compare with Alfred Marshall:
Alfred Marshall’s advice to A.L. Bowley, a former student and distinguished pioneer of mathematical economics and statistics in the 1920s, to: “(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often”.
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
Advice on mathematics for Ph. D. students
Quoting Roger Farmer


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