Increasingly... the application of mathematics to the real world involves discrete mathematics... the nature of the discrete is often most clearly re… - Richard Hamming

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.

The reason this happens so often is the creators have to fight through so many dark difficulties, and wade through so much misunderstanding and confusion, they cannot see the light as others can, now the door is open and the path made easy. Please remember, the inventor often has a very limited view of what he invented, and some others (you?) can see much more.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is the full, beautiful expression of what “You and Your Research” sketched in outline.