#thematic

It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. ↗

— Augustus de Morgan

#easier #get #mathematician #round #square

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#express #get #i #idea #memory

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#book #explore #extent #how #intimately

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#different #different things #giving #mathematics #name

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#mathematics #rather #servants #than

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#harmonic #him #mathematical #music #proportion

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

#each #mathematical #preceding #pure #rule

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older