My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Georg Cantor

Stichwörter: mathematics ruins

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Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Louis Zukofsky

Stichwörter: intelligence mind infinity thought math mathematics addition

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All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes. Mathematicians go backward and forward from one world to another. They’re adults in the crystalline world, infants in the real one.

Sylvain Cappell

Stichwörter: mathematics mathematicians

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I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Michael Grant

Stichwörter: humor mathematics gone-series

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Bill Gaede

Stichwörter: god religion physics authority mathematics spacetime gaede peer

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A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.

Bill Gaede

Stichwörter: physics mathematics gaede

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A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Bill Gaede

Stichwörter: physics relativity mathematics gaede

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A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...

Bill Gaede

Stichwörter: physics mathematics gaede

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Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Michael Crichton

Stichwörter: science mathematics

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Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Michael Crichton

Stichwörter: mathematics

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