Andrea Amaya
"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding."
-William Paul Thurston
Kendra Argo
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
-David Hilbert
Birk Arwedahl
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein
Carolina Carrillo
"Mathematics is, in its own way, the poetry of logical Ideas."
-Albert Einstein
Joey Douglas
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
-John von Neumann
Jonah Garcia
"Mathematics
is, in its own way,
the poetry of
logical ideas."
-Albert Einstein
Xiomara Hoyos Palafox
"Mathematics is not a deductive science-that is cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypothesis, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork."
-Paul Halmos
Connor Joslin-Rivera
"I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."
-Charles Hermite
Deidra Lee
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit."
-Stefan Banach
Kiahesia Miranda
"Mathematics is on the artistic side, a creation of new rhythms, orders, designs, harmonies, and on the knowledge side, is a systematic study of various rhythms, orders."
-William L. Schaaf
Naomi Ochoa Chavez
"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.""
-William Paul Thurston
Jazmine Otero
"Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.
-Anonymous
Jazlyn Ramirez
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein
Jade Rampton
"Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."
-Shakuntala Devi
Sonia Sanchez
"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."
-Shakuntala Devi
Cheyanne Sandoval
"Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal."
-Carl Friedrich Gauss
Tristan Scutt
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein
Amairani Villegas
"Mathematics is, in it’s own way, the poetry of logical ideas."
-Albert Einstein
Lindsey Williams
"The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated but to make complicated things simple. "
-Stan Gudder
Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions
I AM about to appear very inconsistent. In previous sections I have said that all figures in Flatland present the appearance of a straight line; and it was added or implied, that it is consequently impossible to distinguish by the visual organ between individuals of different classes: yet now I am about to explain to my Spaceland critics how we are able to recognize one another by the sense of sight.
If however the Reader will take the trouble to refer to the passage in which Recognition by Feeling is stated to be universal, he will find this qualification - "among the lower classes." It is only among the higher classes and in our temperate climates that Sight Recognition is practised.
That this power exists in any regions and for any classes is the result of Fog; which prevails during the greater part of the year in all parts save the torrid zones. That which is with you in Spaceland an unmixed evil, blotting out the landscape, depressing the spirits, and enfeebling the health, is by us recognized as a blessing scarcely inferior to air itself, and as the Nurse of arts and Parent of sciences. But let me explain my meaning, without further eulogies on this beneficent Element.
If Fog were non-existent, all lines would appear equally and indistinguishably clear; and this is actually the case in those unhappy countries in which the atmosphere is perfectly dry and. transparent. But wherever there is a rich supply of Fog objects that are at a distance, say of three feet, are appreciably dimmer than those at a distance of two feet eleven inches; and the result is that by careful and constant experimental observation of comparative dimness and clearness, we are enabled to infer with great exactness the configuration of the object observed.
An instance will do more than a volume of generalities to make my meaning clear.
Suppose I see two individuals approaching whose rank I wish to ascertain. They are, we will suppose, a Merchant and a Physician, or in other words, an Equilateral Triangle and a Pentagon: how am I to distinguish them?
By: Edwin A. Abbott - Exercept from, "Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions"