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Extractions: Here are some quotations about mathematics, culled from various sources and in no particular order. (Thanks to those who passed some on, especially Jim Propp!) I make no guarantee that the quotes are correct or properly attributed, but if you spot any errors or have more to contribute please send them to Stefan Bilaniuk No doubt but magic may do much in this; Amen. An anonymous University of Toronto mathematics student. "ARITHMETICUS" Virginia, Nevada. "If it would take a cannonball 3 1/8 seconds to travel four miles, and 3 3/8 seconds to travel the next four, and 3 5/8 to travel the next four, and if its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio, how long would it take to go fifteen hundred million miles?"
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Extractions: e-zgeometry Mathematical Quote of the Week Current Quote Past Quotes Math Cartoons Current e-z Math Quote of the Week It is not easy to write about mathematics. There is, first of all, the motivating force for mathematics which is beauty , and then the goal of mathematics which is truth . And finally, there is the importance of mathematics resulting from what the mathematical truths tell us about reality (Jerry P. King - 1992) Go to Top Past e-z Math Quotes of the Week Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence. Albert Einstein Go to Top Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of Mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds.
Extractions: These quotes have been contributed and attributed by members of the Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings Network and many were previously posted to The Famous Quotes Mailing List. Please let me know if you find any errors or omissions or if you want to contribute. The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
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Extractions: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams If it's incomprehensible, it's mathematics. Bennett Cern I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. Joseph Glanvill an excessive study of mathematics absolutely incapacitates the mind... Sir William Hamilton Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. Joseph-Louis Lagrange If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. Norman Mailer In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. Karl Marx How is error possible in mathematics? Henri Poincare But if two and two and fifty make a million,... Pete Seeger Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. Walt Whitman Back to homepage
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Extractions: Use your Browser's " Find " feature to locate a quote on a specific word or author. It may will be doubted whether, in all the range of science, there is any field so fascinating to the explorer-so rich in hidden treasures-so fruitful in delightful surprises-as Pure Mathematics. -Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) (1832-1898) Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning. -William Whewell The discoveries of Newton have done more for England and for the race, than has been done by whole dynasties of British monarchs. -Thomas Hill He is unworthy of the name of man who does not know that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. -Plato ...for no human inquiry can be called science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration. -Leonardo da Vinci The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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Extractions: email me and I'll take down the quote(s). If you find yourself amused, I'm doing something right. Some of these are taken from professors whose classes I enjoyed and who had the good taste to be funny in lecture, and from other random sources. More will appear as they present themselves, and feel free to send them in "Mathematicians tend to despise Dirac notation, because it can prevent them from making important distinctions, but physicists love it, because they are always forgetting such distinctions exist and the notation liberates them from having to remember."Prof. N. David Mermin, a footnote to his "Lecture Notes on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Theory"
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Extractions: Visit this site: http://www.cut-the-knot.com/math_intro.html Author: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny Description: Collected quotations that reflect on the perception of Mathematics by various people over a few hundred years history. The public is invited to check the boxes for quotations it favors. Levels: High School (9-12) College Languages: English Resource Types: Quotations Web Interactive/Java
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Extractions: A list of mathematics and education quotations searchable by author's last name, keyword, or description field, and also alphabetized by last name of author, with references and other resources. more>> The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral History Project - Charles C. Gillispie, Albert W. Tucker, and William Aspray Information about Einstein, pictures, organizations that bear his name. Biographies, Hong Kong Baptist Univ. and MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive; Einstein's History; Obituary; Information, David Joyce; Einstein's interview with the FBI; Why Socialism? ...more>> Archimedes - Chris Rorres, Drexel University
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