Quotes About Mathematics

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

I prefer pi.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it's not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.

Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.

The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data × Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For

In medieval Europe, logic, grammar and rhetoric formed the educational core, while the teaching of mathematics seldom went beyond simple arithmetic and geometry. Nobody studied statistics. The undisputed monarch of all sciences was theology.

partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe. When

the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe.

and even in our decimal system we count from one to twelve, and only after twelve do we return to "ten and three" (thirteen), "ten and four," and so on...

Reality cannot be captured by language—not even the language of mathematics—since all language, by its very nature, is man-made, self-referent ambiguity.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

but the concepts of zero and one are human. Without us, they wouldn't exist.

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.

el "momento pi" de este siglo es el 14/03/15 a 09:26:53, porque pi = 3,141592653. primeros 10 dígitos de pi se unen, en el mismo orden, en ese preciso momento, el 14 de marzo de este año, en 9:26:53. usted no tiene que ser un nerd para celebrar "momento pi" ..... pero a veces le ayuda!

El "momento pi" de este siglo es el 3/14/15 a 9:26:53, porque pi = 3.141592653. Primeros 10 dígitos de pi se unen, en el mismo orden, en ese preciso momento, el 14 de marzo de este año, en 9:26:53. Usted no tiene que ser un nerd para celebrar "momento pi" ..... pero a veces le ayuda!

The "Pi Moment" of this century is on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, because Pi = 3.141592653. First 10 digits of Pi come together, in the same sequence, at that precise moment, on March 14 this year, at 9:26:53. You don't have to be a Nerd to celebrate "Pi Moment".....but sometimes it helps!

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.