Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of… — Anonymous 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
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“Todd, trust math. As in Matics, Math E. First-order predicate logic. Never fail you. Quantities and their relation. Rates of change. The… — David Foster Wallace 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
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to… — Lucio Russo 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
“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
“To be an engineer, and build a marvelous machine, and to see the beauty of its operation is as valid an experience… — Calvin C. Clawson Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn 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
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“We honorspren mimic Honor himself. You Cryptics mimic … weird stuff?” “The fundamental underlying mathematics by which natural phenomena occur. Mmm. Truths that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“To see this switching cost in action, try this basic exercise: Say “abcdefg,” then immediately after that say “1234567.” Notice how long… — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist:… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he… — Too Short Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
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