The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food co….
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking h….
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them..
The will of man is by his reason swayed..
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth..
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematica….
God forever geometrizes..
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bi….
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and m….
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar dif….
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do y….
"Ganas is all you need.".
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but….
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existenc….
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very d….
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the re….
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especi….
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't mak….
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, an….
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another..
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field..