[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
“Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and… — Serge Haroche Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard… — Ellen Kaplan Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
School is pointless Writing: We know that. Math: 1+1= 2 Beyonce taught us that English: We speak it cause we learned it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
“And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics,… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We lived in a two-bedroom apartment, and I shared a room with Kevin, who was three years older than me. I had… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
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