Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
