He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplica...
However, as I hope to persuade you, there are some interesting connections between science and magic. They share a belief, as one mathematician put it, that what is visible is merely a superficial rea...
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I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named Further Maths. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.
Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation...
Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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...
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...
The universe is math on fire.
Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything.
Yes, but you need to learn your maths.I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.
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