Portrait of Heinrich Behnke

Heinrich Behnke

1898–1979

German mathematician

Students attend our lectures, not because the mathematics we teach ‘makes lots of fun’ for us, but because they believe they can learn some essential knowledge from us. And each of our young students has only one life to live. We should therefore be able to justify ourselves to our listeners with respect to what we teach them.

TOPICS: teaching, learning, students, lectures