Quotes About Mathematics

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Life is like mathematics, to work out your life, you need formulas that suit your uniqueness.

If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. And if you can't understand it, it's mathamatics.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

La primera parte, aumentada en 7, la segunda disminuida en 7, la tercera multiplicada por 7 y la cuarta divida por 7 darán el mismo resultado; vean: 7 + 7 = 14 21 – 7 = 14 2 x 7 = 14 98 : 7 = 14

No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.

sistema de numeración más antiguo es el quinario, que es el sistema en el que las unidades se agrupan de cinco en cinco.

Colocar diez soldados en cinco filas de modo que cada fila tenga cuatro soldados. El problema, de apariencia complicada, tiene una solución muy sencilla indicada en la figura en la que aparecen cinco filas de cuatro soldados cada una.

La añoranza es calculada mediante cifras también. Distancia multiplicada por el factor Amor.

In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.

No hay menos belleza en una exacta ecuación q en una frase precisa. Pero cada ciencia tiene su propio lenguaje estético

Mathematics were not the usual dream material for Marce. Most of his dreams, historically speaking, were the standard rehashing of the events of the last few days in an inchoate, plotless manner, with or without pants.

Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling.

There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.

is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

An integer means any whole number positive or negative including zero.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope that every problem has a solution.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

The Goldberg Variations is a good example of how symmetry is not just a physical property but pervades many abstract structures.