Arithmetic Quote by Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

The ability to perform basic math calculations is certainly an integral part of playing fundamental poker. But in tournament poker, it's equally important to…

— Daniel Negreanu

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust…

— David Mamet

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely…

— Natalie Dormer

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics,…

— Maria Konnikova