mathematics

Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.[Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.]

My sub doesn't pay for me,_ he says, pulling me to my feet. __hat just doesn't happen.___ut we ordered so much,_ I say helpl

People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate __eeper_ truths, such as _1 and 1 make 1_ (for lovers), or _1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1_ (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus-sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window-pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds -more evidence of the same? It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called __ddition_, and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere? Somewhere, if you try to look it up, you can probably fin a statement such as, __here are 17 languages in India, and 462 dialects._ There is something strange about the precise statements like that, when the concepts __anguage_ and __ialect_ are themselves fuzzy.

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained as number of factors acting in a favour of a person. These factors' behaviour could be statistically proved , and the probability of such result is possible. It is not related to something explainable event. Actually, the miracle would be if these events (luck) are not in presence in our life. The matter as then would be mathematics proved wrong. So, make your luck!"

... This is a major theme in mathematics: things are what you want them to be. You have endless choices; there is no reality to get in your way.On the other hand, once you have made your choices then your new creations do what they do, whether you like it or not. This is the amazing thing about making imaginary patterns: they talk back!

The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide -- a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.

You know, When does a girl asks you for a selfie ?When she got the solution to the biggest mathematical equation of this Society.

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.