I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.
Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics. ' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts. . . it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.
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.