The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- jbmeerkatmembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences - jbmeerkatmembuat kutipan5 tahun yang laluThe 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.”
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang lalu
there are so many different ways to describe a part of a whole. - Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluAs a quantum physicist he would have been acutely aware that at the deepest level, nature disobeys the commutative law
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang lalubeneath his rarefied taste
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluShe’s once, twice, three times a lady
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluBy sorting the meaningful from the generic, the arithmetic of negative numbers can help us see where the real puzzles lie.
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluof a purely mathematical flavor
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluin mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us
- Elviramembuat kutipan7 tahun yang laluIn that sense, maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences
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