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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
[Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien.
Rien! C'est le vide.]
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.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.
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.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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.
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.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.
