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I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might read more
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear
the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?
Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
[Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien.
Rien! C'est le vide.]
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other read more
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other
sciences.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so read more
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]