306 Quotes About Number

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Everyone is just a set of numbers that the government has access to. Humanity lies in the interpretation of those numbers.

Such attempts lacked all semblance of mathematical rigor because of the lack at that time of satisfactory definitions of either the infinite of the infinitesimal. Arithmetic had not become sufficiently abstract and symbolic to free itself of spatial interpretations, for number was still interpreted metrically as a ratio of geometrical magnitudes.

The smallest number, strictly speaking, is Zero.

Definitions of number, as given by several later mathematicians, make the limit of an infinite sequence identical with the sequence itself. Under this view, the question as to whether the variable reaches its limit is without logical meaning. Thus the infinite sequence .9, .99, .999,... is the number one, and the question, "Does it ever reach one?" is an attempt to give a metaphysical argument which shall satisfy intuition.

Thus the required rigor was found in the application of the concept of number, made formal by divorcing it from the idea of geometrical quantity

Both were gods of the same line, a single father, but Zeus was the elder-born and Zeus knew more.

It's just been terrible this year for the number of players who haven't been ready to play here,

At this point, you're doing everything they tell you and it's been static for a number of weeks. As long as I'm doing everything they tell me to do I'm pretty powerless.