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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?
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.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
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.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into read more
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they read more
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality.
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.
