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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
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.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they read more
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality.
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.
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.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
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.
