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Wilder, R. L. Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible. In The American Mathematical Monthly, March 1994.
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Wilder, R. L. There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned. Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics.
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William of Occam (1300-1439) [Occam’s Razor:] Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. Quodlibeta.
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Wilson, John (1741 – 1793) A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passionsthe affections and the fixed stars are extinguishedtheir names cannot die.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Mathematics is a logical method … Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, New York, 1922, p. 169.
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Wordsworth, William (1770 – 1850) [Mathematics] is an independent world Created out of pure intelligence.
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Wren, Sir Christopoher In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.
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X, Malcom I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. Mascot.
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You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place. ~Author Unknown
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Young, J. W. A. Mathematics has beauties of its own — a symmetry and proportion in its results, a lack of superfluity, an exact adaptation of means to ends, which is exceedingly remarkable and to be found only in the works of the greatest beauty When this subject is properly … presented, the mental emotion should be that of enjoyment of beauty, not that of repulsion from the ugly and the unpleasant. In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
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Zeeman, E Christopher (1925 – ) Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
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