Math Quotes - Page 34

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.