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Mach, Ernst (1838-1916) The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. ‘The Economy of Science’ in J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Mackay, Alan Lindsay (1926- ) Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Bristol: IOP Publishing, 1991.
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Mackay, Charles (1814-1889) Truth … and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet — I but calculate. The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay. 1876.
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Maistre Joseph Marie de (1753 – 1821) The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.
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Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) Some of the men stood talking in this room, and at the right of the door a little knot had formed round a small table, the center of which was the mathematics student, who ws eagerly talking. He had made the assertion that one could draw through a given point more than one parallel to a straight line; Frau Hagenstrm had cried out that this was impossible, and he had gone on to prove it so conclusively that his hearers were constrained to behave as though they understood. Little Herr Friedemann.
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Math is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.- Anonymous
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Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.- George Polya
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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.- David Hilbert
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.- Descartes
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Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.- Plato
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.- J. H. Poincare
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Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.- Roger Bacon
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Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.- Anonymous
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Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary vocabulary of those who know.- W. J. White
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.- Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics should be fun.- Peter J. Hilton
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Mathematics the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.- Isaac Barrow
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Mathesis, Adrian All great theorems were discovered after midnight. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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Mathesis, Adrian If your new theorem can be stated with great simplicity, then there will exist a pathological exception. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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Mathesis, Adrian The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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