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How is an error possible in mathematics?


Henri Poincare


#how #mathematics #possible

...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pattern of delicate lace so fine that that even the faintest light would shine through it. The lace stretches out infinitely in every direction, billowing gently in the cosmic breeze. You want desperately to touch it, hold it up to the light, rub it against your cheek. And all we ask is to be able to re-create the pattern, weave it again with numbers, somehow, in our own language; to make the tiniest fragment our own, to bring it back to eart.


Yoko Ogawa


#imagination

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?


Paul Lockhart


#learning #math #mathematics #art

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.


Bill Gaede


#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.


Amy Summers


#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny #humor

Life is about solving for x


Jane Lescarbeau


#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.


Leslie Lamport


#nature

They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.


Kendare Blake


#math

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.


Mos Def


#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.


Paul Wolfowitz


#go #i #into #leave #led






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