Quotes About Mathematics

I also fell in love with Borges. He is a mathematician's writer. His short stories are like mathematical proofs, delicately constructed and with ideas laced together effortlessly. Each step is taken with precision and watertight logic, yet the narrative is full of surprising twists and turns.

A prímek listája a szívverés a matematikában, de mintha egy er?s koffeinkeverék szabálytalanná tenné ezt a lüktetést.

this equation into the future, it takes a dramatic lurch downward, absurdly predicting complete annihilation of the US population in the middle of October 2028. (Or perhaps the mathematics knows something we don't!) Graph source: The Mathworks, Inc.

She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

No matter how negative someone is to you, do not throw their behavior back in their face. To all the mathematicians out there, I do not care which way you look at it, but two negatives do not make a positive.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Our mathematics is the symbolic counterpart of the universe we perceive, and its power has been continuously enhanced by human exploration.

Because of the "divine" properties attributed to the Golden Ratio, mathematician Clifford A. Pickover suggested that we should refer to that point as "the Eye of God.

The Golden Rectangle is the only rectangle with the property that cutting a square from it produces a similar rectangle.

Twentieth-century British mathematician G.H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to reveal it.

The Golden Ratio has the unique properties that we produce its square by simply adding the number 1 and its reciprocal by subtracting the number 1.