Quotes About Mathematics

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. Stephen Hawking

I think that there is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around today, always presuming we don't blow ourselves up first.

I used to have a bumper sticker that read Black Holes are out of sight on the door of my office in DAMTP [Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge]. This so irritated the head of the department that he engineered my election to the Lucasian Professorship, moved me to a better office on the strength of it, and personally tore the offending notice off the door of the old office.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Hexadecimal uses 0 through 9 to represent 0 through 9, but it also uses A through F to represent the values 10 through 15.

He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in.

The Harmonic Mean gives us the Major Triad The Arithmetic Mean gives us the Minor Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Augmented Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Diminished Triad

Recognizing that non-dotted notes are divisible by two and that dotted notes are divisible by three is very important to understanding rhythm.

An expression is anything that evaluates to a value. 3+4

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Science without math is religion

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century ( Hermite , 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, ' Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.

As Whitehead has observed, "No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.

The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off

Today it is given in the textbooks as an example which young students dispose of in twenty minutes or less. Yet it held Newton up for twenty years. He finally solved it, of course

EULER CALCULATED WITHOUT APPARENT EFFORT, as men breathe, or as eagles sustain themselves in the wind" (as Arago said), is not an exaggeration of the unequalled mathematical facility of Leonard Euler (1707-1783)

Replying two weeks later he states his opinion of Fermat's Last Theorem. "I am very much obliged for your news concerning the Paris prize. But I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.