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«The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence»
«To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.»
Author: Ivars Peterson
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
borders, concepts, dense, denser, Equations, incomprehensible, indecipherable, landscapes, outsider, outsiders, protected, technical, territory, thicket, thickets
«The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.»
Author: Kenneth Miller
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
barrel, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, liquid, nerved, pasture, perfumed, piano, stomp, stomping, stomps, The Piano, virtuosi, virtuoso
«The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.»
«The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Principles
| Keywords:
advanced, fancied, First to, Pythagoreans, saturate, saturated, so-called, take up, The So
«The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, forms, limitation, mathematical, particularly, sciences, symmetry
«The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics,
Thinking,
Thought
| Keywords:
pure, pure mathematics
«We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
application, deduction, deductions, inference, inferences, intercourse
«The mathematics of high achievement»
«The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Poets
| Keywords:
correctness, fervor, ideal, surely, the union, union
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