Math Quotes - Page 50

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.