Quotes About Mathematics

Supersymmetry is a subtle symmetry based on the quantum mechanical property spin.

Note that a rotation by 360 degrees is equivalent to doing nothing at all, or rotating by zero degrees. This is known as the identity transformation. Why bother to define such a transformation at all? As we shall see later in the book, the identity transformation plays a similar role to that of the number zero in the arithmetic operation of addition or the number one in multiplication-when you add zero to a number or multiply a number by one, the number remains unchanged.

Moreover, Galileo argued that by pursuing science using the language of mechanical equilibrium and mathematics, humans could understand the divine mind.

While Euclid himself may not have been the greatest mathematician who ever lived, he was certainly the greatest teacher of mathematics.

The two solutions of the equation for the Golden Ratio are: x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2 x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living.

prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo pensarci su.

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.

Los números primos son útiles para crear códigos y en Estados Unidos los consideran Material Militar y si descubres uno de más de 100 dígitos tienes que decírselo a la CIA y te lo compran por 10.000 dólares. Pero no sería una forma demasiado buena de ganarse la vida.

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Prvo?ísla jsou to, co zbyde, když odstraníte vÅ¡echna pravidla. Já myslím, že prvo?ísla jsou jako život. Jsou velmi logická, ale pravidla pro nÄ› nevymyslíte, ani kdybyste nad nimi strávili vÅ¡echen ?as.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

The smallest number, strictly speaking, is two.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.