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| Math Quotes |
| Written by Tracy A. Phaup | |
| January 15, 2008 | |
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.![]() Albert Einstein Quotes Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. Math is radical! I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. "Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. Tags: Quotes Quotes and Quotations Math Quotes Math Mathematics Dividing
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