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Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless." "I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted. "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.


Norton Juster


#mathematics #names #equality

Gosta da música, que é a mesma coisa que ouvir geometria


Afonso Cruz


#math #music #music

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.


Benoît B. Mandelbrot


#nature

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.


Peter Watts


#geometry #nature #nature-s-grandeur #nature

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.


Galileo Galilei


#cosmology #geometry #math #nature #science

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.


Alain Badiou


#communism #euclid #geometry #mao #maoism

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.


Steven Chu


#exciting #first #geometry #i #i remember

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.


Claude Debussy


#geometry #light #music #optics #sounds

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.


Albrecht Durer


#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.


Gustave Flaubert


#geometry #inventions #poetry #science #sure






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