About Quote by Daniel Tammet

Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know…

— Anonymous

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

— Paul Erdos

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

— Paul Klee

“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see…

— Paul Erdos

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.…

— Daniel Tammet

“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life…

— Morris Kline

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and…

— P. Carey Reid

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato

All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.

— Jeff Van Gundy