Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album. . . Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days. . . As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. At age 60.
And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination.
The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.
Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.