#mathematics

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded. ↗

— James Sanborn

#began #caesar #chose #codes #cryptography

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. ↗

— James Sanborn

#cryptography #elegant #ends #found #i

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#arts #logic #mathematics #music #philosophy

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. ↗

— Marston Morse

#genius #madness #mathematics #same #servant

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. ↗

— Farkas Bolyai

#mathematics #politics #science #thought #science

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #mathematics #numbers

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#racism #mathematics