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#mathematics

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.


Henri Poincare


#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.


Simeon Poisson


#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.


George Boole


#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.


Rudolph A. Marcus


#chemistry #early #high #high school #home

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#arts #arts education #college #education #had

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

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


#first #mathematics #permanent #place #test






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