André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil. — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“A math teacher’s least favorite thing to hear from a student is “I get the concept, but I couldn’t do the problems.”… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now,… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke,… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it’s much better evidence that our world was programmed by… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
