The universe is math on fire.
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to...
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The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification t...
Math is a Chaos and it doesn't have order <--- what's the purpose of it?
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
Was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, be...
Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art;...
Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an even...
Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.
It can only be our familiarity with soap bubbles from our earliest recollections, causing us to accept their existence as a matter of course, that prevents most of us from being seriously puzzled as t...
There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more...
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.