I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length… — Gaspard Monge Copy Share Image
I got a hotline, you can call for the herb, Mathematics with a addicts, you can call me a nerd, I don't… — Ya Boy Copy Share Image
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“This is what it means to do mathematics. To make a discovery (by whatever means, including playing around with physical models like… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
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“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“You know what happens when you give a kid a calculator instead of teaching him math?" "I think you need my help."… — Carolyn Crane Copy Share Image
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As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies… — Brahmagupta Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of… — John Golden Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge,… — Robert P. Crease Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
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To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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