Morris Kline

Person · Open Library

Born

1908

Works

79

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1932-09-08

Active to

1963-03-05

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 29,789x

2. AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility

   · 2009 · cited 22,562x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,519x

4. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,409x

5. Society and the Adolescent Self-Image

   · 1965 · cited 15,163x

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Quotes

• “Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. "Later generations," he said in 1908, "will regard set theory as a disease from which one has recovered.”
• “While the mathematicians were still looking askance at the Greek gift of the irrational number, the Hindus of India were preparing another brain-teaser, the negative number, which they introduced about A.D. 700. The Hindus saw that when the usual, positive numbers were used to represent assets, it was helpful to have other number represent debts.”
• “The famous sixteenth-century algebraist Jerome Cardan called negative roots fictitious, and the founder of modern symbolic algebra, François Viète, discarded negative roots entirely. Descartes, called them false on the ground that they represented numbers less than nothing and so were meaningless.”
• “The unnaturalness of mathematical symbolism is attested to by history. The algebra of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Hindus, and the Arabs was what is commonly called rhetorical algebra. ...on the whole they used ordinary rhetoric to describe their mathematical work. Symbolism is a relatively modern invention of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...”
• “Historically, it was Euclidean geometry that, developed to a large extent as a votive offering to the God of Reason, opened men's eyes to the possibility of design and to the possibility of uncovering it by the pursuit of mathematics.”
• “The use of canon raised numerous questions concerning the paths of projectiles. ...One might determine... what type of curve a projectile follows and.... prove some geometrical facts about this curve, but geometry could never answer such questions as how high the projectile would go or how far from the starting point it would land. The seventeenth century sought the quantitative or numerical information needed for practical applications, and such information is provided by algebra.”

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