Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ...… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
“His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
If You Choose To Love , Love At Ay Hundred Percent, Because Everyone Wants Da Best Relationships, But EveryThing Must Be Split… — MrJayPee Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Much as it took Lucas to revolutionize the search for Mersennes primes and Lord Kelvin to introduce new ways to look for… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with math. I don’t like numbers for the sake of numbers. I am not impressed… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are… — Louis Poinsot Copy Share Image
“4.19. Dedekind's approach is a singular combination of Descartes' Cogito and the idea of the idea in Spinoza. The starting point is… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is “infinite complexity.” Fractals are the theological… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion;… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that the Aryan Romans culturally plagiarized the hexadecimal system from China. Not only did the former utilize the Abacus,… — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci… — Einar Thorsteinn Copy Share Image
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