mathematics

REAL MATHEMATICS is not about just computing but it is about figuring out_Figuring out the truthfulness, reasoning behind specific event, patterns, determinism in chaotic processes etc.

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all the economy and elegance of his mathematical proofs performed right there on the ironing board. The Professor was definitely the best man for this job, we had to admit, since the tablecloth was made of delicate lace.

We__l start with an easy one, shall we? What is the secant of three pi?_ The troll asked. __ie?_ Toru felt suddenly hungry. __hat are you talking about, man, have you gone senile? A sea camp? You mean like the floating city?

You__e probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone__ better at math than I am, but it__ okay, I__ fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things__uitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

When he said someone had "died", Erd_s meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

How to describe the excitement I felt when I saw this beautiful work and realized its potential? I guess it's like when, after a long journey, suddenly a mountain peak comes in full view. You catch your breath, take in its majestic beauty, and all you can say is "Wow!" It's the moment of revelation. You have not yet reached the summit, you don't even know yet what obstacles lie ahead, but its allure is irresistible, and you already imagine yourself at the top. It's yours to conquer now. But do you have the strength and stamina to do it?

The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle of equal circumference. According to some, in ancient Egypt, this mathematical mystery was encoded in the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful___mportant_ if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and __erious_ expresses what I mean much better

Add Snow White and her seven dwarfs,2 droids for Luke Skywalker, of course.1 true ring to rule them all. A decimal is a place to stall.Snow White's gone, the dwarfs alone.This system your next clue has shown.Now you might ask, this little key, Just what does it mean for me?Hold on tight and you will see, Someday it will set clues free.

THINK, and do not sacrifice yourself to mathematical magic.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.