If you follow all of these tips, and you have a good background in math, you should be able to achieve a B. A's will be earned by exceptional students in mathematics.

This is a weighted course.

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.

Quotations by Paul Erdos:

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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.

A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Quotations by Aristotle

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

That which we must learn to do, we learn by doing.
Nicomachean Ethics

Education is the best provision for old age.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002)

Quotations by René Descartes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
La Geometrie.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Discours de la Méthode. 1637.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Discours de la Méthode. 1637.

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are,

but in what direction we are heading.” – O.W. Holmes

Mathematics is the music of reason.

- James J Sylvester

Quotations by Pierre-Simon Laplace

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
(Allegedly his last words.)
Quoted in A De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Read Euler: he is our master in everything.
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

Q: Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
A: To get to the other ... er, um ...

It was Rene Descartes who, in 1637, first used exponents as we use them today.

“I think, therefore I am… [squared].”

- Rene Descartes

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