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Strogatz Steven

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

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  • jbmeerkathas quoted4 years ago
    maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences
  • jbmeerkathas quoted4 years ago
    The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    there are so many different ways to describe a part of a whole.
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    As a quantum physicist he would have been acutely aware that at the deepest level, nature disobeys the commutative law
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    beneath his rarefied taste
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    She’s once, twice, three times a lady
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    By sorting the meaningful from the generic, the arithmetic of negative numbers can help us see where the real puzzles lie.
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    of a purely mathematical flavor
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    In that sense, maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences
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