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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser 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
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that… — John D. Barrow 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
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“So a)To what extent might human relationships be expressed in a mathematical or logical formula? And b) If so, what signs might… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat.… — Mal Peet 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
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there… — Katherine Johnson Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship between mathematics and the world began to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
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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
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“One can set up a completely self-contained mathematical theory, which proceeds from the elementary laws that are valid for individual points to… — Bernard Riemann Copy Share Image
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
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