Math Quotes - Page 37

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Without mathematics there is no art.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.