Finite Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota Download Open image “The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.” — Gian-Carlo Rota ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Finite Infinite Mathematics Progress Science
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. — James Newman Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress. — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the greater number of mathematic… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed?… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
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