Arthur Mattuck Quotes

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
  • Mathematics
  • Toronto

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• 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
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• 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
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Vision
  • Audience
  • Relax

• The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Good
  • Science
  • Problem

• I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • High
  • Computer
  • Mathematics

• What if she figures out you're not very smart?

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Smart
  • Figures

• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Guy
  • Lasts
  • Jokes

• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Mathematics
  • Blues

• Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Art
  • Figures
  • Stones

• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Facts
  • Figures
  • False

• But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reason
  • Mathematics
  • Could

• I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Figures

• Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

  

  Archimedes
  • Mathematics
  • Secrets
  • Pure Love

• I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

  

  William Petersen
  • People
  • Regret
  • Figures

• The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Popular
  • Reasoning
  • Vanities

• There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • Mistake
  • Realizing
  • Careers

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

  

  Arthur Mattuck
  • Mathematics
  • Figures
  • Reasoning