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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
Author: S. Gudder
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It is not the job of mathematicians… to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
Author: Samuil Shchatunovski
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The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.
Author: Thomas Hill
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Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.
Author: Tobias Dantzig
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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
Author: W.S. Anglin
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If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.
Author: W.S. Franklin
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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.- Anonymous
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A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.- Evan Esar
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A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.- Karl Weierstrass
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A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.- Plutarch
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Abel, Niels H. (1802 – 1829) If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words,the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation. In G. F. Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York: Mcgraw Hill, Inc., 1992, p. 188.
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Adams, Douglas (1952 – 2001) The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up. The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else’s Pr
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Adams, John (1735 – 1826) I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780.
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Adler, Alfred Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing. ‘Mathematics and Creativity.’ The New Yorker Magazine, February 19, 1972.
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Adler, Alfred In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is. Reflections: mathematics and creativity, New Yorker, 47(1972), no. 53, 39 – 45.
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Adler, Alfred The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished. ‘Mathematics and Creativity.’ The New Yorker Magazine, February 19, 1972.
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Aiken, Conrad [At a musical concert:] …the music’s pure algebra of enchantment.
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Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.- D’Alembert
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.- Alfred North
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