The will of man is by his reason swayed..
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….
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….
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especi….
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..
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical..
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer..
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to adv….
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is….
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are prod….
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been ….
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half ….
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort o….
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is….