#thematic

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#harmonic #him #mathematical #music #proportion

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

#each #mathematical #preceding #pure #rule

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to say to a student 'Your feelings and ideas are suspect. You need to think and speak our way. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intuition #math #mathematics #art

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati ↗

— Wahyu Aditya

#human #human-nature #mathematics #maths #science

Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#dating

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#mathematics

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#communism #euclid #geometry #mao #maoism

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#science #science

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley. ↗

— Yōko Ogawa

#mathematics #ogawa #problem-solving #professor #mathematics