Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

Popular Topics
Love You, Dance, Faith, Lives, Humble, Song, Soccer, Movie Love, Creative, Religion, Body, Life Is Good, Oceans, Knowledge, Mother'S Day, Good, Gossip, Kindness, Looking For Love, I Miss You, Life Is Like, Quiet, Inspirational Life, Heart, Thing, Nice, I Like You, Think, Enthusiast, Math, Angry, Job, House, Art, Today, Thinking, Story, Passive, Journey, Music, Funny, Thank You, Secret, Positive, Football, Evidence, Excellent, Willing, Glory, Disco
Edward Charles Titchmarsh

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.

Obvious, People, Space, Think, Thinking, Visualise
Same Author Quotes

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Logic, Math, Mathematics, Surprising, Thing

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

Careers, Found, Independent, Language, Literature, Long

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Education, Intolerable, Irrational, Math, Use, Would Be

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

Cases, Casual, Heart, Ignores, Matter

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Constructed, Long, Mathematics, Proof, Though
Similar Quotes