May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and v… - James Joseph Sylvester
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and v…
- James Joseph Sylvester
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of h… - James Joseph Sylvester
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of h…
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. - James Joseph Sylvester
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to… - James Joseph Sylvester
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to…
Mathematics is the music of reason. - James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics is the music of reason.
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. - James Joseph Sylvester
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus… - James Joseph Sylvester
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus…
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloqu… - James Joseph Sylvester
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloqu…
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… - James Joseph Sylvester
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…
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