Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are … - Richard Hamming

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Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late.

Richard Hamming

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Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."

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Beware of finding what you're looking for.

[A favorite aphorism he often used.]

A central problem in teaching mathematics is to communicate a reasonable sense of taste—meaning often when to, or not to, generalize, abstract, or extend something you have just done.

The standard process of organizing knowledge into departments, and subderpartments, and further breaking it up into separate courses, tends to conceal the homogeneity of knowledge, and at the same time to omit much which falls between the courses.

Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late. - Richard Hamming

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