Mathematics Quote by Jordan Ellenberg

“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.” quote by Jordan Ellenberg — Download Open image

““Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.””

Jordan Ellenberg

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My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in…

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“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

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“numerically flavored advice.”

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“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army…

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“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis”

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“Mathematics is common sense.”

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“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?”

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“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice cream store until I’ve gone halfway there. And once I’ve gone halfway, I can’t get to the store until I’ve gone half the distance that remains. Having done so, I still have to cover half the…

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“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

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“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

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“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.”

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“torturing the data until it confesses,”

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