Quotes About Numbers

Even the greatest Greek algebraist, Diophantus, who lived during the latter part of the Alexandrian Greek civilization (around A.D. 250), rejected irrationals as numbers.

predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

geometrical forms, such as triangles and circles, and the concepts of arithmetic, such as whole numbers and fractions, are abstractions of certain properties of physical objects.

Negative numbers, equations involving unknowns, formulas, derivatives, integrals, and other concepts we shall encounter are abstractions built upon abstractions.

Another example may also help us to appreciate the abstractness of numbers. Mathematically, is equal to . But the corresponding physical fact may not be true.

Because in our way of writing numbers the position of an integer determines the quantity it represents, the principle involved is called positional notation.

The mathematics and science that developed in Europe after the Renaissance became much more dependent upon quantitative results and hence upon the use of all types of numbers.

Can we combine ?2 + ?3 into the simpler ?5? Let us test this operation on whole numbers expressed as roots. Certainly ?9 + ?16 does not equal , that is, 3 + 4 does not equal 5. Hence we should not assert the analogous relation for irrational numbers.

Take, therefore, these sacred numbers and keep them most dearer beside your heart. The numbers are 2, 7 and 9.

There is no way to know precisely how many men deserted. The official count from the U.S. provost marshal's report was 103,400. This was out of a total of 750,000 to 850,000 men listed as in the army by the end of the war.

But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in numbers. Perhaps it is.

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Don't let your company default to the kind of numbers that your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is likely to grind out. Instead, look for data that will help you understand whether a specific initiative is succeeding according to the most relevant metrics.

With which he deposited two or three of the penny numbers of fiction on the little table, and regarded himself, it was evident, as a person of princely liberality.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

unless a company has some kind of economic moat, predicting how much shareholder value it will create in the future is pretty much a crapshoot, regardless of what the historical track record looks like. Looking at the numbers is a start, but it's only a start. Thinking carefully about the strength of the company's competitive advantage, and how it will (or won't) be able to keep the competition at bay, is a critical next step.

One, one, two, zero," I told him through the chattering of my teeth. "It's my birthday.

Maybe as many as two thousand in the US, five or six hundred in Canada, and about four hundred in Mexico.

If God has given all things their significance, and defined their bounds according to time, space, power, and number, and if He has appointed certain measurements to regulate things and times, biblical numbers must be symbolical, and be worthy of our study; and if a fit subject for study, the laws by which this symbolism of numbers is controlled, require to be ascertained.

Give him numbers, he's great. Give him words and sentences to put together and his forehead creases down so you can see exactly what he'll look like when he's eighty.

Amo las palabras por lo que son capaces de conseguir. Del mismo modo, no soy ningún aritmético. Los números que solo hablan de números me interesan muy poco.