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 CappellTag: mathematics mathematicians
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RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.
Sylvia NasarTag: mathematicians
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Bill GaedeTag: god religion atheism atheist skepticism mathematics exist mathematicians gaede mathematical-physics theist
A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.
Bill GaedeTag: relativity mathematics mathematicians gaede general-relativity mathematical-physics warped-space
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
Bill GaedeTag: quantum-mechanics mathematics mathematicians gaede general-relativity mathematical-physics mathematician electromagnetic-wave wave-theory
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
Bill GaedeTag: time-travel mathematicians gaede general-relativity mathematician black-hole parallel-universe time-dilation wormhole
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.
Bill GaedeTag: science education mathematics mathematicians gaede mathematical-physics establishment peer-review
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneTag: truth kindness lies philosophers human-relationships symbol mathematicians
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
Blaise PascalTag: education god spirituality christian student mathematics pascal mathematicians blaise-pascal philisophy
The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTag: mathematics numbers greeks mathematicians zero nullity
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