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Definitions and meanings of word "mathematics"

• Noun: a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

Featured authors with quotes containing word "mathematics"

Andrew Wiles
9 quotes about mathematics
English Mathematician
Born Saturday 11 April 1953
Danica McKellar
7 quotes about mathematics
American Author, Actress
Born Friday 3 January 1975
E. T. Bell
6 quotes about mathematics
Scottish Mathematician
Wednesday 7 February 1883 - Wednesday 21 December 1960
James Joseph Sylvester
3 quotes about mathematics
English Leader, Mathematician
Saturday 3 September 1814 - Monday 15 March 1897
Edsger Dijkstra
3 quotes about mathematics
Dutch Scientist
Sunday 11 May 1930 - Tuesday 6 August 2002
Bertrand Russell
4 quotes about mathematics
British Philosopher, Critic, Historian, Mathematician
Saturday 18 May 1872 - Monday 2 February 1970
James Newman
4 quotes about mathematics
American Astronaut
Born Tuesday 16 October 1956
David Hilbert
3 quotes about mathematics
German Mathematician
Thursday 23 January 1862 - Sunday 14 February 1943
Stephen Cole Kleene
3 quotes about mathematics
American Mathematician
Tuesday 5 January 1909 - Tuesday 25 January 1994
G. H. Hardy
2 quotes about mathematics
British Mathematician
Wednesday 7 February 1877 - Monday 1 December 1947
Lawrence R. Klein
3 quotes about mathematics
American Economist
Tuesday 14 September 1920 - Sunday 20 October 2013
Albert Einstein
3 quotes about mathematics
German Physicist
Friday 14 March 1879 - Monday 18 April 1955

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester

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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

James Joseph Sylvester

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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

James Joseph Sylvester

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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.

James Joseph Sylvester

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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

James Joseph Sylvester

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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

James Joseph Sylvester

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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

James Joseph Sylvester

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

James Joseph Sylvester

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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.

James Joseph Sylvester

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

James Joseph Sylvester

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

James Joseph Sylvester

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Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

James Joseph Sylvester

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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

James Joseph Sylvester

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We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

James Joseph Sylvester

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

James Joseph Sylvester

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

James Joseph Sylvester

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The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

James Joseph Sylvester

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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

James Joseph Sylvester

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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

James Joseph Sylvester

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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

James Joseph Sylvester

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