#thematic

Life is about solving for x ↗

— Jane Lescarbeau

#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#author #composition #double #fact #hand

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#essays #good #i #loved #mathematics

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. ↗

— Mos Def

#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. ↗

— Andre Weil

#consistent #devil #exists #god #mathematics

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ↗

— Andre Weil

#men #morality

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#dose #doubts #hath #mathematical #need

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace