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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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“In short, I never yet encountered the mere mathematician who could be trusted out of equal roots, or one who did not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The same operation which makes “q” from “p”, makes “r” from “q”, and so on. This can only be expressed by the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra,… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
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Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
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The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
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A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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