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Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.


Peter Høeg


#longing #mathematics #missing #negative-numbers #mathematics

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.


Albert Einstein


#mathematics

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!


Ivan Turgenev


#mathematics

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.


Malcolm X


#mathematics #schooling #mathematics

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.


E. T. Bell


#mathematics #most #obvious #word

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.


Andrew Lo


#difficulties #early #early childhood #had #hard

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.


Richard M. Nixon


#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.


Henri Poincare


#different #different things #giving #mathematics #name

Mathematics is the music of reason.


James Joseph Sylvester


#music #reason






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