Archives

 

February 2012
M T W T F S S
« Jan    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829  

Quote of the Day 2010-1-31

It is certain that intuition can be trained and developed. The bewildered novice in chess moves cautiously, recalling individual rules, whereas the experienced player absorbs a complicated situation at a glance and is unable to account rationally for his intuition.

-William Feller

Bonus trivia: Feller is one of the few mathematicians outside of the Soviet Union to appreciate the importance of probability theory, and his texts popularized its study in the United States. He also fled Germany in 1933 after refusing to sign a Nazi oath, so maybe he did know a thing or two about probability. HEYO.

Leave a Reply

  

  

  

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>