#mathematics

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

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In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. ↗

— James Rainwater

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

— George Boole

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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

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I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

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An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#blossomed #could #dealing #early #economic

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#berkeley #both #california #completion #economics