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What you learn from others you can use to follow.What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Beware of finding what you're lookin

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the stu...

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

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Richard Hamming

Mathematician

Born: 1915-02-11

Died: 1998-01-07

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."More