Quotes About Mathematics

"The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina."

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Max Tegmark in his book Our Mathematical Universe.

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.

on this basis it developed a sexagesimal system of calculation by sixties, which became the parent of later duodecimal systems of reckoning by twelves.

It is not merely probable, it is certain that we shall never find a straight line that is not the shortest distance between two points.

Babylonian mathematics rested on a division of the circle into 360 degrees

That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage, determination, and utter unwillingness to be beaten serves, in the truest sense of the word, as an inspiration for mathematician and non-mathematician alike. The long history of mathematics provides no finer example of the triumph of the human spirit.

Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.

In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be guided and sustained by the genius of Euler and asserted , with much justification, that all mathematicians...are his disciples.

To this day the existence of odd perfect numbers remains unsolved.

Rule 2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.27

5/11 is about half. 217 is about 200.

Rule #2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this is the singular of the word whose plural is dice. Two dice, one die. Like two mice, one mie.)(Well, two mice, one mouse. Like two hice, one house. Peculiar language, English.)

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual activity of a human being. Whatever is done by humanity in the art-and-science domain is placed in-between.

The final story of randomness—utter chaos—has not yet been told to us by the mathematicians. It seems remarkable that something so fundamental for probability theory has not been defined and even more remarkable that we can go so far in mathematics lacking a definition. By simply assuming randomness exists, mathematicians assign elementary probabilities to events, and that is their starting point. But they have not captured chaos and looked it in the eye.

Ich war so was wie ein Wunderkind in Sachen Physik und Mathematik, wollte Kernphysiker werden, habe dann aber über den Schriftsteller Hans Henny Jahnn promoviert. Ich habe sämtliche meiner Karrieren zerstört, bevor sie anfingen. Das mache ich immer noch so.