Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
Elegance; it lacks the intellect - he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems.
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.
