Adrien-Marie Legendre Quotes
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
Adrien-Marie Legendre
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
G. H. Hardy
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
Naftali Bennett
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
Alexander Grothendieck
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
T Bone Burnett
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
Pablo Picasso
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
Rob Zombie
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.
Marquis de Condorcet
