Beauty Quote by Iamblichus

If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is…

— Iamblichus

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

— Pliny the Elder

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

— Pliny the Elder

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman

“...the following parable may be useful. Long ago, when shepherds wanted to see if two herds of sheep were isomorphic, they would look for…

— John C. Baez

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its…

— William James

The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose…

— Hermann Weyl

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into…

— Hermann Weyl

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson