Books Quote by Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

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

“The other problem with empathy is that it is too parochial to serve as a force for a universal consideration of people’s interests. Mirror…

— Steven Pinker

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy

“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things in the…

— Jaron Lanier

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of the mathematical ideas…

— Anonymous

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…

— G. H. Hardy

I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas…

— John Von Neumann

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Modern mathematics contains much more than that, of course. It includes set theory, for example, created by Georg Cantor in 1874, and “foundations,” which…

— Anonymous

“Because empaths can see the world through their partner’s point of view, they frequently tend to completely mesh with the viewpoints of their abusers.…

— Aletheia Luna