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]

Rudolf Clausius

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A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward for both of us.

Sariah Wilson

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Základní věta algebry se tak nejmenuje náhodou, opravdu základní je. Ve svých pamětech Gauss poznamenal, že při jejím objevu (ako končíci student ve 22 letech) "pocítil mírnou radost".

Milan Mareš

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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

Aimee Bender

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One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Jacob Appelbaum

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It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing around numbers as if numbers are life. But in two years you'll be telling me about some boy.

Elizabeth Knox

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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Mark Haddon

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As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Anthony Liccione

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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 Murakami

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