705 Quotes About Mathematics



  • Author Priyavrat Thareja
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    Mathematics is a wonderful common sense! To understand the harmony in its nature magnificent this wondrous language, abundantly rich in terms of matter and manner, calls for cleverness to manoeuvre through the complexities. Finally it is all wisdom.

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  • Author Daniel Tammet
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    What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.

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  • Author Ted Chiang
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    In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation to mathematics using formal logic as their basis. They began with what they considered to be axioms, and used those to derive theorems of increasing complexity. By page 362, they had established enough to prove "1 + 1 = 2.

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