#mathematics

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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How is an error possible in mathematics? ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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

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

— Simeon Poisson

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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

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

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

— Robert Quine

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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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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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