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| Sophia Kovalevskaya |
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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| William James |
| |
The union of the mathematician with the poet,
fervor with measure, passion with correctness,
this surely is the ideal.
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| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| |
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes
himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic
sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
|
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...for no human inquiry can be called science
unless it pursues its path through mathematical
exposition and demonstration.
|
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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences,
because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
|
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| Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) |
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Geometria est archetypus pulchritudinis mundi.
(Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.)
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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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| Albert Einstein |
| |
|
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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|
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
|
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How can it be that mathematics,
being after all a product of human thought
independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?
|
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The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and science.
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|
I have no particular talent - I am merely inquisitive.
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Everything should be as simple as possible-but no simpler.
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| Voltaire |
| |
There is an astonishing imagination
even in the science of mathematics.
|
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| René Descartes |
| |
Intuition is the conception of an attentive mind,
so clear, so distinct, and so effortless that we
cannot doubt what we have so conceived.
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In hope that posterity will judge me kindly,
not only as to the things which I have explained,
but also to those which I have intentionally omitted
so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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|
With me everything turns into mathematics.
|
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Each problem that I solved became a rule
which served afterwards to solve other problems.
|
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Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed:
everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it
that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect
never desire more of it than they already have.
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| Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) |
| |
The profound study of nature is the most
fertile source of mathematical discoveries.
|
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| Plutarch |
| |
|
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, it is a fire to be kindled.
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| Isaac Newton (1642-1727) |
| |
If I have seen farther than others, it is
because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
|
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I keep the subject constantly before me
and wait till the first dawnings open
little by little into full light.
|
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I know not what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy
playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble
or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.
|
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Who by vigor of mind almost divine,
the motions and figures of planets,
the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas,
first demonstrated.
(on Newton's epitah)
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| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| |
An equation means nothing to me
unless it expresses a thought of God.
|
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| Euripides |
| |
|
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
|
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| János Bolyai (1802-1860) |
| |
I have discovered such wonderful things
that I was amazed....out of nothing
I have created a strange new universe.
|
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One must do no violence to nature,
nor model it in conformity to any
blindly formed chimaera.
|
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| George Washington |
| |
The science of figures, to ascertain degree,
is not only indispensably requisite in every walk
of civilized life; but the investigation
of mathematical truths accustoms the mind
to method and correctness in reasoning,
and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
In a clouded state of existence, where some many things
appear precarious to the bewildered research,
it is here that the rational faculties find
a firm foundation to rest upon. From the high ground
of mathematical and philosophical demonstration,
we are insensibly led to far more nobler speculations
and sublimer meditations.
|
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| Steven Wright |
| |
|
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
|
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| Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| |
It is a mathematical fact that the casting
of this pebble from my hand alters
the centre of gravity of the universe.
|
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| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| |
The most distinct and beautiful statement
of any truth must take at last the mathematical form.
|
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| Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) |
| |
One cannot escape the feeling that these
mathematical formulae have an independent
existence and an intelligence of their own,
that they are wiser than we are,
wiser than their discoveries,
that we get more out of them than was
originally put into them.
|
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| Escher Maurits Cornelis (1898-1972) |
| |
The laws of mathematics are not merely human inventions
or creations. They simply "are"; they exist quite independently
of the human intellect. The most that any man with a keen
intellect can do is to find out that they are there
and to take cognizance of them.
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| Charles Darwin |
| |
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room
looking for a black cat which isn't there.
|
| |
I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics,
and if you are, then God help you, for so am I,
only with this difference, I stick fast in the mud
at the bottom and there I shall remain.
|
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| Proculus Diadochus |
| |
This therefore is Mathematics:
she reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul;
she gives life to her own discoveries;
she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect;
she brings light to our intrinsic ideas;
she abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.
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| Proclus |
| |
|
Wherever there is number, there is beauty.
|
| |
| |
| Benjamin Franklin |
| |
What science can there be more noble,
more excellent, more useful for men,
more admirably high and demonstrative,
than this of the mathematics?
|
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| |
| Niels Bohr |
| |
|
Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
|
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| |
| Augustus de Morgan |
| |
|
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
|
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|
The moving power of mathematical invention in not reasoning but imagination.
|
| |
| |
| W.K.White |
| |
The beautiful has its place in mathematics
for here are the triumph of the creative imagination.
|
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| |
| Charles Pierre Péguy |
| |
It is the essence of genius to make
use of the the simplest ideas.
|
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| Plato (429-347 B.C.) |
| |
|
God ever geometrizes.
|
| |
No single instrument of youthful education
has such mighty power, both as regards
domestic economy and politics, and in the arts,
as the study of arithmetic. Above all, arithmetic
stirs up who is by nature sleepy and dull,
and makes him quick to learn, retentive, shrewd,
and aided by art divine he makes progress
quite beyond his natural powers.
|
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge.
It is knowledge itself.
|
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|
No one who is not a geometrician may enter our house.
|
| |
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant
of the fact that the diagonal of a square is
incommensurable with its side.
|
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| |
| Lobachevsky |
| |
There is no branch of mathematics,
however abstract, which may not someday
be applied to phenomena of the real world.
|
| |
| |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
| |
There are three kinds of lies:
lies, damned lies, and statistics.
|
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| |
| Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| |
|
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
|
| |
All science as it grows toward perfection
becomes mathematical in its ideas.
|
| |
Algebra is the intellectual instrument
which has been created for rendering clear
the quantitative aspects of the world.
|
| |
The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments,
may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
|
| |
There is no more common error than to assume that,
because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations
have been made, the application of the result
to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
|
| |
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics
is a divine madness of the human spirit,
a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
|
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| |
| John Locke |
| |
|
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
|
| |
| |
| Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
| |
If a man's wit be wandering,
let him study mathematics.
|
| |
There is no excellent beauty that has
not some strangeness in the proportion.
|
| |
| |
| Pythagoras |
| |
Choose always the way that seems the best,
however rough it may be; custom will soon
render it easy and agreeable.
|
| |
|
Number is the within of all things.
|
| |
|
There is geometry in the humming of the strings.
|
| |
| |
| Edmond Duranty |
| |
It takes immense genius to represent,
simply and sincerely, what we see right in front of us.
|
| |
| |
| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| |
In questions of science the authority of a thousand
is not worth the humble reasoning of an individual.
|
| |
|
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
|
| |
Measure what is measurable,
and make measurable what is not so.
|
| |
|
But where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
|
| |
...dealing with infinities and indivisibles,
both of which transcend our finite understanding...
In spite of this men cannot refrain from discussing them.
|
| |
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until
one first learns to comprehend the language and become
familiar with the characters in which it is composed.
It is written in the language of mathematics.
|
| |
| |
| Eudoxus |
| |
Willing would I burn to death like Phaeton,
were this the price for reaching the sun
and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.
|
| |
| |
| Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) |
| |
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet,
is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent
than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
|
| |
|
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
|
| |
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside of us,
and that our function is to discover, or observe it,
and that the theorems which we prove,
and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations"
are simply notes on our observations.
|
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| |
| S. Gudder |
| |
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated,
but to make complicated things simple.
|
| |
| |
| Charles Babbage (1791-1871) |
| |
On two occasions I have been asked,
“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine
wrong figures, will the right answers come out?”
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion
of ideas that could provoke such a question.
|
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| |
| Simeon Poisson |
| |
Life is good for only two things,
discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
|
| |
| |
| Gottlob Frege |
| |
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher,
and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
|
| |
| |
| Jaime Escalante |
| |
|
You burros have calculus in your blood.
|
| |
| |
| Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) |
| |
"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked.
"What's one and one and one and one and one and
one and one and one and one and one?"
"I don't know," said Alice, "I lost count."
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| |
|
"Why," said the Dodo, "the best way to explain it is to do it."
|
| |
“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee,
“if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That's logic.”
|
| |
It may well be doubted whether,
in all the range of science,
there is any field so fascinating to the explorer
– so rich in hidden treasures
– so fruitful in delightful surprises
– as Pure Mathematics.
|
| |
| |
| Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) |
| |
As for everything else,
so for a mathematical theory:
beauty can be perceived but not explained.
|
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| |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) |
| |
"Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur."
[Mathematics is written for mathematicians.]
|
| |
| |
| Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| |
Nothing pertaining to humanity becomes us
so well as mathematics. There, and only there,
do we touch the human mind at its peak.
|
| |
| |
| Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| |
Sir, I have found you an argument.
I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
|
| |
| |
| Pappus of Alexandria |
| |
Bees...by virtue of a certain geometrical
forethought...know that the hexagon is greater
than the square and the triangle and will hold
more honey for the same expenditure of material.
|
| |
| |
| Herodutus |
| |
Sesostris...made a division of the soil of Egypt
among the inhabitants.... If the river carried away
any potion of a man's lot,...the king sent persons
to examine, and determine by measurement the exact
extent of the loss.... From this practice , I think,
geometry first came to be known in Egypt,
whence it passed into Greece.
|
| |
| |
| Raoul Bott |
| |
There are two ways to do great mathematics.
The first way is to be smarter than everybody else.
The second way is to be stupider than everybody else
-- but persistent.
|
| |
| |
| Hermann Hankel |
| |
In most sciences one generation tears down what
another has built and what one has established
another undoes. In mathematics alone each
generation adds a new story to the old structure.
|
| |
| |
| Nicholas Bourbaki |
| |
|
Structures are the weapons of the mathematician.
|
| |
| |
| Benjamin Pierce |
| |
|
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
|
| |
| |
| Sir Winston Churchill |
| |
Sir, We must be aware of needless innovations,
especially when guided by logic.
|
| |
| |
| George Polya |
| |
Mathematics consists in proving the most
obvious thing in the least obvious way.
|
| |
The beauty in mathematics is seeing
the truth without effort.
|
| |
| |
| George Polya and Gabor Szego |
| |
An idea which can be used once is a trick.
If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.
|
| |
| |
| Donald R. Newman |
| |
Transcendental numbers occupy a position
in the field of real or complex numbers
much like that of insects in the kingdom of animals.
Everybody knows they are, by a large margin,
the most abundant class, but few know more
than one or two of them by name.
|
| |
| |
| Aldous Huxley |
| |
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics
have been due to the invention of symbols,
which it afterwards became necessary to explain;
from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory
of negative quantities.
|
| |
| |
| Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| |
|
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
|
| |
| |
| Felix Klein (1849-1925) |
| |
Everyone knows what a curve is, until
he has studied enough mathematics
to become confused through the
countless number of possible exceptions.
|
| |
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those
who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
|
| |
| |
| Aristotle (384-322 BC) |
| |
|
Number proceeds from unity.
|
| |
...the primary question was not
What do we know?, but How do we know it?
|
| |
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order,
symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest
forms of the beautiful.
|
| |
| |
| Thomas Aquinas |
| |
Since Mathematics is intermediate between
natural and divine science,
it is more certain than either of them; ...
|
| |
| |
| George Berkeley (1685-1753) |
| |
And what are these same evanescent increments?
They are neither finite quantities,
nor quantities infinitely small,
nor yet nothing. May we not call them
the ghosts of departed quantities?
|
| |
Certainly he who can digest a second or third
fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about
any point in divinity.
|
| |
| |
| Jakob Bernoulli |
| |
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series,
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minuta
And in the narrowest limits, no limits inhere.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!
|
| |
| |
| Pierre Leon Boutroux (1880-1922) |
| |
Logic is invincible,
because in order to combat logic
it is necessary to use logic.
|
| |
| |
| Claude Bragdon |
| |
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human
consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.
|
| |
| |
| Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| |
The science of mathematics presents
the most brilliant example of how pure reason
may successfully enlarge its domain
without the aid of experience.
|
| |
| |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| |
You can only find truth with logic
if you have already found truth without it.
|
| |
| |
| D'Alembert |
| |
|
Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.
|
| |
| |
| Richard Dedekind (1831-1916) |
| |
|
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.
|
| |
| |
| Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) |
| |
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature
and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us,
nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis
may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
|
| |
| |
| Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz |
| |
I am so in favor of the actual infinite
that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it,
as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes
frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show
more effectively the perfections of its Author.
|
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| |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss (1749-1832) |
| |
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences,
and number theory the queen of mathematics.
|
| |
We must admit with humility that,
while number is purely a product of our minds,
space has a reality outside our minds.
|
| |
| |
| Sonya Kovalevsky (1850-1891) |
| |
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing
any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic,
and consider it an arid science. In reality, however,
it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
|
| |
| |
| Goethe |
| |
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent,
an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,
for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
|
| |
| |
| James Pierpont |
| |
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend;
it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.
|
| |
| |
| Paul Erdös (1913-1996) |
| |
|
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
|
| |
| |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| |
|
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
|
| |
| |
| G.H. Hardy |
| |
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
If his patterns are more permanent than theirs,
it is because they are made with ideas.
|
| |
| |
| Gosta Mittag-Leffler |
| |
The mathematician’s best work is art,
a high perfect art, as daring as
the most secret dreams of imagination,
clear and limpid.
|
| |
| |
| Werner Heisenberg |
| |
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato.
In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense;
they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
|
| |
| |
| Georg Cantor (1845-1918) |
| |
In mathematics the art of proposing a question
must be held of higher value than solving it.
|
| |
|
The essence of mathematics resides in its freedom.
|
| |
| |
| Emile Lemoine |
| |
A mathematical truth is neither simple
nor complicated in itself, it is.
|
| |
| |
| David Hilbert (1862-1943) |
| |
The infinite! No other question has ever moved
so profoundly the spirit of man.
|
| |
|
No one will expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
|
| |
|
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain
it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
|
| |
Mathematical science is in my opinion
an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality
is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
|
| |
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries;
for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
|
| |
| |
| Morris Kline (1908-1992) |
| |
Mathematicians create by acts of insight and intuition.
Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
|
| |
|
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
|
| |
| |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| |
All the effects of nature are only mathematical
results of a small number of immutable laws.
|
| |
Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language
that its simplified notation often becomes the source
of profound theories.
|
| |
| |
| Arthur Loeb |
| |
Space is not a passive vacuum, but has properties
that impose powerful constraints on any structure that
inhabits it.
|
| |
| |
| Scott Buchanan |
| |
The structures with which mathematics deals
are more like lace, the leaves of trees
and the play of the light and shadow on a human face...
|
| |
| |
| Thomas McCormack |
| |
|
That flower of modern mathematical thought, the notion of a function.
|
| |
| |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| |
We do not listen with the best regard
to the verses of a man who is only a poet,
nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist;
but if a man is at once acquainted
with the geometric foundation of things
and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact
and his arithmetic musical.
|
| |
If a man is at once acquainted
with the geometric foundation of things
and with their festal splendor,
his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
|
| |
| |
| John Michel |
| |
The mathematical rules of the universe
are visible to men in the form of beauty.
|
| |
| |
| Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) |
| |
|
Geometry is the right foundation of all painting.
|
| |
| |
| Napoleon |
| |
The advancement and perfection of mathematics
are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.
|
| |
| |
| Rozso Peter |
| |
I love mathematics . . . principally because it is beautiful,
because man has breathed his spirit of play into it,
and because it has given him his greatest game
– the encompassing of the infinite.
|
| |
| |
| Jean Piaget |
| |
A child['s] . . . first geometrical discoveries
are topological . . . If you ask him to copy a square
or a triangle, he draws a closed circle.
|
| |
| |
| C.S. Pierce |
| |
Mathematics is purely hypothetical:
it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
|
| |
| |
| H.G. Wells |
| |
Statistical thinking will one day be
as necessary for efficient citizenship
as the ability to read and write.
|
| |
| |
| Henri Poincaré |
| |
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful;
he studies it because he delights in it,
and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
|
| |
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem,
it is neither necessary nor even advantageous
to know what it means.
|
| |
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling
of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
It is the harmony of the diverse parts,
their symmetry, their happy balance;
in a word it is all that introduces order,
all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly
and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
|
| |
| |
| Eric Bell Temple (1883-1960) |
| |
Creative mathematicians now, as in the past,
are inspired by the art of mathematics rather
than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
|
| |
| |
| Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| |
Geometry is the only science that it hath
pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
|
| |
|
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
|
| |
| |
| Marcel Proust |
| |
The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
|
| |
| |
| N. David Mermin |
| |
Mathematicians tend to despise Dirac notation,
because it can prevent them from making important distinctions,
but physicists love it, because they are always forgetting
such distinctions exist and the notation liberates them
from having to remember.
|
| |
| |
| Allen Hatcher |
| |
Obviously this is weak chalk...
or else I'm a very strong mathematician.
|
| |
| |
| Bertrand Russell |
| |
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,
but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere,
like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music,
yet sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection
such as only the greatest art can show.
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learned
as a task but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought,
and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.
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| Shakespeare |
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I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space.
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It was a sometime paradox, but now time has given it proof.
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| Tobias Dantzig (1884-1956) |
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Mathematics is the supreme arbiter.
From its decisions there is no appeal.
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| H.J.S. Smith |
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Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject
(mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds,
when it is the one universal science and the one whose . . .
ground rules are taught us almost in infancy
and reappear in the motions of the universe.
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| Lynn Arthur Steen |
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Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . .
it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics
that a more apt definition became fully evident:
mathematics is the science of patterns.
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| Alan Turing |
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically
as the exercise of a combination of two facilities,
which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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| Steven Weinberg |
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The universe is an enormous direct product
of representations of symmetry groups.
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| Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757) |
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An educated mind is, as it were,
composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Mathematicians are like lovers ...
Grant a mathematician the least principle,
and he will draw from it a consequence
which you must grant him also,
and from this consequence another.
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| Carl Jacobi (1804-1851) |
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Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
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| Sir D'Arcy Wentworth |
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The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number,
and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy
are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1925) |
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Descartes commanded the future from his study
more than Napoleon from the throne.
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| Susan Gerhart |
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One person’s constant is another person’s variable.
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