Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-20


"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics," The International Monthly (July 1901)

The Flammarion Engraving by an unknown artist, from L'Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (1888)

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-26


"Without mathematics, we are blind."

Alain Badiou (1937-    ) Short Treatise on Transient Ontology (1998)

The Golden Ratio in the Parthenon