What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm..
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a h….
Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!.
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse an….
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it..
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be….
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have be….
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he ….
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm….
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and….
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry..
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanist….
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better t….
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I ….
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now..
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any id….
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You ….
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself thin….
People who don't count won't count..
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful..
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then….