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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of
patterns. If his patterns are more permanent read more
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of
patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is
because they are made with ideas.
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.
[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no
mathematicians on earth.
[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no
mathematicians on earth.
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his
tail.
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his
tail.
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he
has given.
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he
has given.
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.]
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.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
