In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.
Paul GoodmanStichwörter: sex bertrand-russell mathematics
Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy
your mathematics is.
Stichwörter: mathematics
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
Isaac AsimovStichwörter: math pithy mathematics maths
Life is about solving for x
Jane LescarbeauStichwörter: philosophy brain mathematics solve4x
They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.
Kendare BlakeStichwörter: mathematics
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria AñóStichwörter: humor life age work living old-age aging-gracefully ageing aging economy middle-age mathematics jobs works growing-old job inevitability old-people worker workers working-class getting-older irony-of-life retired old-aged retiring nuria-ano
Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.
Lawrence YoungStichwörter: mathematics maths
And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."
He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.
Stichwörter: mathematics pencil
But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet.
"Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where — but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
Stichwörter: infinity mathematics
Is everyone with one face called a Milo?"
"Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things."
"How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless."
"I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted.
"Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.
Stichwörter: names mathematics geometry
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