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How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c ...
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, ...
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach h ...
A kind of Pythagorean terror, as though the irrationality of pi were an offence against the deity, not to mention his creature.
... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain t ...
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
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I know that two and two make four--& should be glad to prove it too if I could--though I must say if by any sort of process I coul ...
"I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course."
"What was that?" inquire
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2 7x 53
= 1 1/3
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.
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