28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
1:38 p.m.
=Henry Baker Teach no abstraction before its time...
"Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigor of intellect." --George Boole (1815-1864) as quoted at the front of Z. A. Melzak's "Companion to Concrete Mathematics"