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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.


Plato


#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?


Henri Poincare


#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.


Theodor Adorno


#also #calculated #mathematically #quality #stupid

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.


Stefan Banach


#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

Mathematics is as old as Man.


Stefan Banach


#mathematics #old

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.


Henri Poincare


#fallacy #fine #following #guilty #incapable

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.


George Boole


#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.


Bob Costas


#any #being #between #did #different

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


#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.


Edsger Dijkstra


#mathematics #should #such #thing






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