#math

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#aptitude #basic #between #beyond #difference

I just am not good at math. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#good #i #just #math

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#glamorous #main #make #math #messages

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#challenge #confidence #down #dumb #feeling

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #come #cry #difference #fault

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #coffee #college #drank #drinker

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. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#amazing #amazing things #application #art #art form

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #college #come #cry #got