Rudy Rucker Quotes about Math

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached,

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

Rudy Rucker

God, Education, Math

Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Rudy Rucker

School, Mean, Math

Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

Rudy Rucker

Teaching, Math, Drawing

Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation

Rudy Rucker Quotes about Math

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