Hans Freudenthal quotes - page 2

No mathematical idea has ever been published in the way it was discovered. Techniques have been developed and are used, if a problem has been solved, to turn the solution procedure upside down, or if it is a larger complex of statements and theories, to turn definitions into propositions, and propositions into definitions, the hot invention into icy beauty. This then if it has affected teaching matter, is the didactical inversion, which as it happens may be anti-didactical. (Hans Freudenthal)

Hans Freudenthal

Hans Freudenthal - Image
Photo: Hofland, L.H., fotograaf; Auteursrechthouder: Het Utrechts Archief, CC BY 4.0
Occupation: Dutch Mathematician
Born: September 17, 1905
Died: October 13, 1990
Quotes count: 26
Wikipedia: Hans Freudenthal