Categories Quote by Timothy Gowers Download Open image “Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.” — Timothy Gowers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categories Mathematics Science Theorists
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“if, for each t, we write u(t) for the function from to that takes x to u(x, t), then it describes how the function… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“ut = -uux - uxxx. Why is it that this equation gives rise to the remarkable stability of the solutions that was observed experimentally… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.” — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“The function ei(kx-ωt) represents a wave that travels at a speed of ω/k, which we have just shown to be equal to -k2. Therefore,… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“differential equations that can be solved in “closed form,” that is, by means of a formula for the unknown function f, are the exception… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever leaving our armchairs?” — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
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