Quotes About Mathematics

Art is fire plus algebra.

Cumplidos los cien años, el individuo puede prescindir del amor y de la amistad. Los males y la muerte involuntaria no lo amenazan. Ejerce alguna de las artes, la filosofía, las matemáticas o juega a un ajedrez solitario. Cuando quiere se mata. Dueño el hombre de su vida, lo es también de su muerte.

We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.

Mathematical theory, tested in practice and constantly retested, is a valuable aid to play. Mathematics alone will blind you and let others rob you.

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

Read Euler , read Euler , he is the master of us all.

by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

All is Number

Number rules the universe.

There is geometry in the humming of the string.