In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 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
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
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger 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… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
![“[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.” quote by Cassius Jackson Keyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bda/cassius-jackson-keyser-37055_assuming_the-humanization-of-mathematical-teachin_1807256.jpg)
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