AP Calculus II
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Assignment Schedules
2010-2011
2009-2010
Last year's schedules
(may be revised for this year)
The
whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Metaphysica 10f-1045a
The
mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and
these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Metaphysica, 3-1078b.
The
so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only
advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles
of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Metaphysica 1-5
There
are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
Quoted in S Gudder, A Mathematical Journey
A
nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be
of good shape and agreeable to the eye.
Politics
Paul
Erdos quotes:
A
Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Why
are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers
are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
Television
is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Quotables…
…from Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler.
The search for
truth is more precious than its possession.
Great spirits
have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
One reason why
mathematics enjoys special esteem, above other sciences, is that its laws are
absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some
extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered
facts.
"Alice laughed: "There's no
use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When
I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Alice in Wonderland.- Charles Dodgson
A mathematician is a blind man
in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
--Charles R. Darwin
“Never, Never, Never Quit.” – Winston Churchill
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Enthusiasm is the propelling force necessary for climbing the ladder of success.”
“The harder you work the luckier you get.” - Gary Player (Golfer)
“Act
as though it were impossible to fail.”
“There is always room at the top.” - Daniel Webster
“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
- General George S. Patton