Quotes About Mathematics

Since four coordinates are needed, we know that we live in a four-dimensional universe

Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path.

Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number and its immediate antecedent tends towards a 'golden mean' (around 1.618). It

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

the idea that two and two make five, for instance, was suggested by multiple sources. Stalin's propagandists were fond of saying that they completed the first Five Year Plan in four years; this was sometimes rendered for the simple-minded as 2+2=5.

CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

But, despite their remoteness from sense experience, we do have something like a perception of the objects of set theory, as is seen from the fact that the axioms force themselves upon us as being true. I don't see any reason why we should have less confidence in this kind of perception, i.e., in mathematical intuition, than in sense perception.

I trust we have replaced mass hysteria with mass agreement, and 'mass agreement is the true substance of reality.' Frankly, it's only combat-engineer elementary mathematics.

7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Sin religión alguna de una Divinidad, jamás los hombres en nación se concertaron; y así comode cosas físicas, o sea de los movimientos de los cuerpos, no cabeciencia segura sin la guía de las verdades abstractas de la matemática, así no cabe en las cosas morales sin el aprecio de las verdades abstractas de la metafísica, y por tanto sin la demostración de Dios.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.