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“El propósito de la computación es la comprensión, no los números.”

Richard Hamming

Fuente: Richard Hamming (1962): Métodos Numéricos para Científicos e Ingenieros. Prefacio

“Los postulados de las matemáticas no estaban en las tablas de piedra que Moisés trajo del Monte Sinaí.”

Richard Hamming

Fuente: The American Mathematical Monthly, 87 (2), febrero de 1980, pág. 81-90

“Si usted no trabaja en problemas importantes, no es probable que vaya a hacer un trabajo importante".”

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“Cuando eres famoso es difícil trabajar en los problemas pequeños.”

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Fuente: «Al dar su discurso de recepción del premio Nobel de Física en 1956, Brattain, casi con lágrimas en los ojos, dijo: "Conozco ese efecto del Premio Nobel y yo no voy a dejar que me afecte, yo voy a seguir siendo el viejo Walter Brattain". Bueno, me dije a mi mismo, "Eso está bien". Pero en un par de semanas vi que le estaba afectando. Ahora sólo podía trabajar en grandes problemas. Cuando eres famoso es difícil trabajar en los problemas pequeños».

“La verdadera grandeza es cuando tu nombre es como ampère (amperio), watt (vatio) o fourier -cuando se escribe en letras minúsculas.”

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Existen tres unidades de medida en honor de estos tres científicos.
Fuente: Richard Hamming You and Your Research, Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 de marzo de 1986.

“En ciencia, si sabes lo que estás haciendo, no deberías estar haciéndolo.”

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“De hecho, una de mis mayores quejas sobre el campo de la informática es que mientras que Newton pudo decir: "Si he visto un poco más lejos que otros, es porque me he apoyado en los hombros de gigantes", me veo obligado a decir "Hoy en día nos encontramos sobre los pies del otro"… La ciencia se supone que es acumulativa, no una duplicación casi interminable de cosas de la misma naturaleza.”

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“La idea de que los teoremas se deducen de los postulados no se corresponde con la simple observación. Si se descubriese que el teorema de Pitágoras no deriva de los postulados, se volvería a buscar una manera de alterar los postulados hasta que eso sea cierto. Los postulados de Euclides derivan del teorema de Pitágoras, no al revés.”

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Richard Hamming: Frases en inglés

“Perhaps thinking should be measured not by what you do but by how you do it.”

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Richard Hamming

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Somewhere in the mid-to-late 1950s in an address to the President and V. Ps of Bell Laboratories I said, "At present we are doing 1 out of 10 experiments on the computers and 9 in the labs, but before I leave it will be 9 out of 10 on the machines". They did not believe me… by now we do somewhere between 90% to 99% on the machines… And this trend will go on!”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?”

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Fuente: The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers (1991), p. 298

“Probability is too important to be left to the experts. […] The experts, by their very expert training and practice, often miss the obvious and distort reality seriously. […] The desire of the experts to publish and gain credit in the eyes of their peers has distorted the development of probability theory from the needs of the average user. The comparatively late rise of the theory of probability shows how hard it is to grasp, and the many paradoxes show clearly that we, as humans, lack a well grounded intuition in the matter. Neither the intuition of the man in the street, nor the sophisticated results of the experts provides a safe basis for important actions in the world we live in.”

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Fuente: The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers (1991), p. 4 [emphasis in original]

“Calculus is the mathematics of change. …Change is characteristic of the world.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“Much of present science rests on engineering tools, and as time goes on, engineering seems to involve more and more of the science part. …the two fields are growing together! …and now there is not enough time to allow us the leisure which comes from separating the two fields.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“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.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“If you expect to continue learning all your life, you will be teaching yourself much of the time. You must learn to learn, especially the difficult topic of mathematics.”

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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“It is probable that the future will be more limited by the slow evolution of the human animal and the corresponding human laws, social institutions, and organizations than it will be by the rapid evolution of technology.”

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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Typing is no substitute for thinking.”

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cited in: John G. Kemeny, ‎Thomas E. Kurtz, Structured BASIC programming (1987) p. 118

“The only generally agreed upon definition of mathematics is "Mathematics is what mathematicians do." […]
In the face of this difficulty [of defining "computer science"] many people, including myself at times, feel that we should ignore the discussion and get on with doing it. But as George Forsythe points out so well in a recent article*, it does matter what people in Washington D. C. think computer science is. According to him, they tend to feel that it is a part of applied mathematics and therefore turn to the mathematicians for advice in the granting of funds. And it is not greatly different elsewhere; in both industry and the universities you can often still see traces of where computing first started, whether in electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, or even business. Evidently the picture which people have of a subject can significantly affect its subsequent development. Therefore, although we cannot hope to settle the question definitively, we need frequently to examine and to air our views on what our subject is and should become.”

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Hamming cites Forsythe, G.E., "What to do until the computer scientist comes", Am. Math. Monthly 75 (5), May 1968, p. 454-461.
One Man's View of Computer Science (1969)