“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“This partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet. "Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
“A plug for the quantitative sciences: The reality is, most humans manage to feed, clothe, and amuse themselves, and yet are not… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aristotle draws a sharp dividing-line between the activities of the physicist and those of the mathematician. The mathematician limits his enquiry to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about… — John B. Conway Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
People who are looked up to in America will often say, 'I don't get math.' And they'll often say it like they're… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca… — Midhat Gazale Copy Share Image
The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A boy was teaching maths to a girl... He kissed her, again he kissed her n said, this is addition then the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image
“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous,… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein… — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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