Quotes About Numbers

One of the great things about mental math is that the calculations can generally be done from either direction, and a certain symmetry generally is present.

But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical world, many found the claims for such a harmony hard to resist. Thus, in the early years of the twentieth century, we begin to see why Minkowski's application of complex numbers to the description of space and time was hailed by one physicist as 'one of the greatest revolutions in our accepted views'.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Mathematicians call it "the arithmetic of congruences." You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock face with 0. The 12 hours of the clock now read 0, 1, 2, 3, … up to 11. If the time is eight o'clock, and you add 9 hours, what do you get? Well, you get five o'clock. So in this arithmetic, 8 + 9 = 5; or, as mathematicians say, 8 + 9 ? 5 (mod 12), pronounced "eight plus nine is congruent to five, modulo twelve.

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Veritably, what establishes and defines, the hundreds of thousands of useless numbers on social media, when a few ones of that stay active? - Indeed, garbage cannot beautify and impregnate with fragrance the streets.

So much fuss about the greatness of this one and that one, but what virtue is there in being born with certain qualities, it's like admiring the bingo basket when you shake it and good numbers come out

A wise does not confuse between the crowd of people seen around a person and his/her actual supporter numbers in the mob but the fools do.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

It's quantity, not quality.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

I don't compare myself to guys who had the same quarterback their entire career. Nothing against that - they're blessed with that. But I don't compare my numbers.

You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I've ever played.

We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.

I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far greater numbers.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that

The discovery of the laws of numbers was made on the basis of an error already predominant in the earliest times, that several things might be identical (but actually there are no identical things), or that there are at least things (but there is no 'thing'). The assumption of multiplicity is always presupposes that there is something that occurs multiple times: but this is precisely where error already holds sway, already we invent beings, unities that do not exist.

The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities exist in nature, and that relations abstractions, or universals cannot have any such objective existence - hence they are given a shadowy existence in the mind.