I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification. . . the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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