#thematic

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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

— Augustus de Morgan

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Henri Poincare

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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

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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

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

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to say to a student 'Your feelings and ideas are suspect. You need to think and speak our way. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intuition #math #mathematics #art

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati ↗

— Wahyu Aditya

#human #human-nature #mathematics #maths #science