Ron Aharoni

Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty

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  • Yekaterhinahas quoted10 years ago
    Introduction: Magic
    A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
    Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician, 1815–1897
  • Diego Arroyohas quoted4 years ago
    Voltaire, for example, said that “there was more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    In mathematics and in poetry the effect is beauty.
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    what is on the surface is only one aspect of reality. The inner forces are of greater importance.
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    The poem is telling us something deep without our being fully aware of its meaning. A poem is a pickpocket who instead of stealing, puts something in our pocket without us noticing.
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    And what poetry does to human emotions and cravings, mathematics does to order in the material world. It tries to find the internal logic of things
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    What does geometry have in common with music, or arithmetic with poetry? One answer is that both mathematics and poetry search for hidden patterns
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    there was more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.”
  • layanosaniihas quoted4 years ago
    The moving power of mathematical invention
    is not reasoning but imagination
  • b3291089619has quoted7 years ago
    “there was more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.”
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