Paul Samuelson quotes - page 4

Samuelson is an artist; he brought undergraduates pretty well up to the level of the state of knowledge in the profession. (Paul Samuelson)
A few years ago, I had the good fortune of running across a first edition of Paul's textbook (not the recent reprint of the original text, but an actual 1948 edition). It was a real find. I bought the volume in an online auction for, if my recollection is correct, $35. Talk about consumer surplus! I would have gladly paid many times that. At the next Boston Fed meeting, I took the book along to get Paul to sign it. Below is the book's title page, along with Paul's gracious inscription. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Many principles of economics were hidden in obscure verbiage of previous generations; he reformulated and extended them with crystal clarity in the language of mathematics. View quote
Paul Samuelson