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The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right
triangle of my mons,
The square root of nothing.
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
The first man to understand the extraordinary magical power of applying mathematical calculation to things in nature was an Italian called Galileo Galilei.
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Basic trigonometric properties put forth by Muslim mathematicians serve as basis for how GPS systems work today
Bees... by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material.
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.
There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.
The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle of equal circumference. According to some, in ancient Egypt, this mathematical mystery was encoded in the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!
If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.
measure twice and cut once.) Fourth,
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.
What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?"
The kid laughed. "I want them all." He threw his hands out. "I'm learning everything!"
He opened one of the books. "Look ... geometry ... triangles ...
Math never disappoints.
There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.
Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.
It looks like a parallelogram fucking an isosceles triangle, I said.
A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
Mathematics is the music of reason.
Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics - she called it "maths" and he called it "math
The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
Did a swift burst of mental arithmetic, arrived at an answer he liked and
Geometry existed before creation.
Look for the second right answer.
There is no Royal Road to Geometry.
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.
Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
Squamous. He did not need to look it up. He knew. They
A ruler isn't always straight.
As great Pythagoras of yore,
Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
And hearing the hammers, as they smote
The anvils with a different note,
Stole from the varying tones, that hung
Vibrant on every iron tongue,
The secret of the sounding wire.
And formed the seven-chorded lyre.
I would think of a quote, but I have to do my math homework
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'
He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase
Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.
Not only can I teach you math, I can teach you math in bed, Jordan. You know, I'll add the bed, you subtract the clothes, you divide the legs, and I'll multiply
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason.