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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.


Danica McKellar


#concern #condition #convey #fear #fun

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.


John McLaughlin


#belong #culture #mathematics #particular #rhythm

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.


Thelonious Monk


#musicians #subconsciously

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.


Nikola Tesla


#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.


Howard Nemerov


#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.


Jean Piaget


#logic #mathematics #nothing #specialised #structures

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.


Jean Piaget


#chance #children #development #forth #knowledge

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.


Jean Piaget


#affirm #beings #epistemology #into #linguistic

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.


Henri Poincare


#know #machines #mathematician #more #need

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






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