Quotes & Sayings About Exponential Function

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power. — Stephanie Mills

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert A. Bartlett

We have trouble estimating dramatic, exponential change. We cannot conceive that a piece of paper folded over 50 times could reach the sun. There are abrupt limits to the number of cognitive categories we can make and the number of people we can truly love and the number of acquaintances we can truly know. We throw up our hands at a problem phrased in an abstract way, but have no difficulty at all solving the same problem rephrased as a social dilemma. All of these things are expressions of the peculiarities of the human mind and heart, a refutation of the notion that the way we function and communicate and process information is straightforward and transparent. It is not. It is messy and opaque. — Malcolm Gladwell

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller

two of the most important function classes: exponential and trigonometric functions. — Metin Bektas