Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned..
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths..
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge..
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry..
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical ….
It's kind of hard to rally around a math class..
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense..
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day a….
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint..
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical..
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black….
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he onl….
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to Californi….
I have no faith in political arithmetic..
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do eve….
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the ….
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry..
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the metho….
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can tak….
I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me ….
Mathematicians are born, not made..