705 Quotes About Mathematics



  • Author Alex Bellos
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    The Munduruku have many things, but not enough numbers to count them. Cantor has provided us with as many numbers as we like, but there are no longer enough things to count.

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  • Author Edward Snowden
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    A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret.

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  • Author Robert Kanigel
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    Ramanujan had lost all his scholarships. He had failed in school. Even as a tutor of the subject he loved most, he'd been found wanting.He had nothing.And yet, viewed a little differently, he had everything. For now there was nothing to distract him from his notebooks- notebooks, crammed with theorems, that each day, each week, bulged wider.

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  • Author Steve Madison
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    It's solely thanks to mathematics that existence is rational, explicable, intelligible. Existence has an answer only because it's a mathematical organism. It isn't a mathematical AI. It's not a dead computer. It's a living, purposeful intelligence, a Hive Mind made of individual, living minds, of which each of us is one.

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