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I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
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“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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