In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect,… — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter… — Louis Orr Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato Copy Share Image
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory… — Lorenzo Ghiberti Copy Share Image
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial,… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
