Books Quote by Keith J. Devlin

“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by a costly…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness…

— Alain Badiou

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

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete…

— Anonymous

“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to…

— Jim Al-Khalili

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today’s prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For the first…

— Sean Platt

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete…

— James Clerk Maxwell