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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into read more
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,
and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the
beautiful.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,
and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the
beautiful.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so read more
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other read more
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other
sciences.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
