#thematic

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. ↗

— G.H. Hardy

#mathematics #art

We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choices #inspirational #life #mathematical #motivational

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#establishment #gaede #mathematical-physics #mathematicians #mathematics

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#applied #distinctly #mainly #mathematical #mathematics

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#because #die #forgotten #ideas #languages

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#am #both #creation #divine #entire

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#concepts #entity #experience #god #having

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. ↗

— William Joyce

#billy #good #math #mathematics #super

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#extraordinary #find #fortunate #i #mathematics