You will find quotations related to mathematics just below and at the bottom of this page. Each has inspired me to think of the mathematical experience in some new way.
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics, and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics, and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.---John von NeumannOffice: Darwin 114I
Phone: (707) 664-2964
Dr. B.'s e-mail (bill.barnier@sonoma.edu)
I am teaching Precalculus (Math 107) and Calculus II (Math 211) during Fall 2009. By clicking on each link below you can gain access to the class syllabus as well as assignments and other material in pdf format.
| Class | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Math 107 | TR 1:00 - 2:50 | Darwin 35 |
| Math 211 | TR 5:00 - 6:50 | Salazar 2014 |
| Math 211Lab | R 4:00 - 4:50 | Stevenson 2055 |
| Time | Place |
|---|---|
| T 3:00 - 3:50 | Darwin 114I |
| W 3:20 - 3:50 | Darwin 114I |
| R 3:00 - 3:50 | Darwin 114I |
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors.---James Caballero
. . . a theorem as “the square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides” is as dazzlingly beautiful now as it was in the day when Pythagoras discovered it. ---Lewis Carroll
The miracle of the
appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of
the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor
deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain
valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for
worse, to our pleasure even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to
wide branches of learning. ---Eugene Wigner,
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Last revised on August 19, 2009