The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.
[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862]
Stichwörter: science math thermodynamics mathematics algebra sum second-law-of-thermodynamics
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
Douglas R. HofstadterStichwörter: math mathematics innumeracy john-allen-paulos
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Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.
Kenneth E. BouldingStichwörter: economics mathematics
Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to possessions, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as the space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze; it is as incapable of being restricted within assigned boundaries or being reduced to definitions of permanent validity, as the consciousness, the life, which seems to slumber in each monad, in every atom of matter, in each leaf and bud and cell, and is forever ready to burst forth into new forms of vegetable and animal existence.
James Joseph SylvesterStichwörter: mathematics
The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain scientific facts, and that higher knowledge is mathematics.
Fulton J. SheenStichwörter: science philosophy mathematics
Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
Neal StephensonStichwörter: mathematics
I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.
Douglas CouplandStichwörter: mathematics
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.
Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our LivesStichwörter: empathy literature mathematics
As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: math mathematics
Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically and effectively solve mathematical problems while simultaneously presenting a spectacular display of the romance concealed in the questions it posed. Tengo saw admiration in the eyes of several of his female students, and he realized that he was seducing these seventeen- or eighteen-year-olds through mathematics. His eloquence was a kind of intellectual foreplay. Mathematical functions stroked their backs; theorems sent warm breath into their ears.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: math mathematics seduction
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