Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Marcel AchardTag: humor women mathematics
...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook.
In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pattern of delicate lace so fine that that even the faintest light would shine through it. The lace stretches out infinitely in every direction, billowing gently in the cosmic breeze. You want desperately to touch it, hold it up to the light, rub it against your cheek. And all we ask is to be able to re-create the pattern, weave it again with numbers, somehow, in our own language; to make the tiniest fragment our own, to bring it back to eart.
Tag: mathematics
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 believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
Bill GaedeTag: science mathematics gaede mathematical-physics mathematician
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
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.
Roger PenroseTag: science consciousness physics mathematics
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?
Paul LockhartTag: education learning math mathematics
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
Paul LockhartTag: education math mathematics
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No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
Paul LockhartTag: education math mathematics
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