David Mumford Quotes

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

David Mumford

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

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
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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
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  • Taught
  • Pure

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
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  • Father
  • City

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
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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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Years
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  • They Say

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Like
  • Inside
  • Reputation

• 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

• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Author

• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • History
  • Unique

• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • History
  • Reputation

• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Way
  • Risk
  • Reputation

• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.

  

  Jack Straw
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  • Circumstances
  • Abstract

• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Two
  • Reputation
  • Dues

• Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hate
  • Ethics
  • Abstract

• When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Real
  • Language
  • Property

• I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • English
  • Read
  • Mathematics

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Winning
  • Loser
  • Sarcastic

• Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

  

  William Torrey Harris
  • Individual
  • Results
  • Historical

• Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

  

  David Mumford
  • Mathematics
  • Reputation
  • Abstract