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Mathematical Quotes by Barry Mazur
- Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is…
- This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially…
- Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.
More Mathematical Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar