Math Quotes
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Sonya Kovalevsky
Profession: mathematician.
Born 1850, Moscow, Russia. Died 1891, Stockholm, Sweden.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics
confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.
In reality, however,
it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Profession: mathematician.
Born 1850, Moscow, Russia. Died 1891, Stockholm, Sweden.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics
confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.
In reality, however,
it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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Diadochus Proclus
(410-485)
The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts:
one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude;
and each of these they posited as twofold.
A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself
or in relation to another quantity,
magnitudes as either stationary or in motion.
Arithmetic, then, studies quantity as such,
music the relations between quantities,
geometry magnitude at rest,
spherics magnitude inherently moving.
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The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts:
one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude;
and each of these they posited as twofold.
A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself
or in relation to another quantity,
magnitudes as either stationary or in motion.
Arithmetic, then, studies quantity as such,
music the relations between quantities,
geometry magnitude at rest,
spherics magnitude inherently moving.
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Rene Descartes
(1596-1650)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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... the two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction,
on which alone we have said
we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Grown men can learn from very little children
for the hearts of the little children are pure.
Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them
many things which older people miss.
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Math Quotes from Children
Eamonn Ryan, age 4, self-proclaimed mathematician
"Daddy, people think really small numbers are easy to work with, but they are not, because really small numbers are really big negative numbers"
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"Minus times minus equals plus; The reason for this we won't discuss."
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
Indian Proverb
Eamonn Ryan, age 4, self-proclaimed mathematician
"Daddy, people think really small numbers are easy to work with, but they are not, because really small numbers are really big negative numbers"
***
"Minus times minus equals plus; The reason for this we won't discuss."
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
Indian Proverb
