George Andrews Quotes
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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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.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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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?'
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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.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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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.
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will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuing to operate, it must be in a way that does not violate air-quality standards.
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen
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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.
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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.
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Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
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In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
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Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
