Felt Quote by Ada Lovelace

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…

— Ada Lovelace

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

— Ada Lovelace

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of…

— Ada Lovelace

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value;…

— Ada Lovelace

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in…

— Brian Greene

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…

— Ada Lovelace

It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it…

— Ada Lovelace

“Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They offered a…

— James Gleick

Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development…

— Murray Gell-Mann

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more…

— Ada Lovelace

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

— Percy Williams Bridgman