Monday, March 4, 2019

Memorable Mathematical Phrases-2


Memorable Mathematical Phrases-2

Beauty and truth are relevant topics of analysis in philosophy, the permanent goal in the plastic arts and music, reason for innumerable poetic and literary works. Mathematics is not alien to them; Therefore, we present some opinions of mathematicians. An exception, Bernard Shaw is not a mathematician, but he recognizes the special quality of mathematics in this world.

"For those who do not know mathematics, it is difficult to feel the beauty, the profound beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, appreciate nature, it is necessary to learn the language in which she speaks "(Richard Feynman, Manhattan, May 11, 1918-Los Angeles, February 15, 1988: American theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in 1965 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics In a 1999 survey of the journal Physics World, Feynman was considered one of the ten greatest physicists of all time).



"The pure mathematician, in the same way as the musician, is a free creator in his world of ordered beauty" (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, was a philosopher, mathematician, logician and British writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, an expert in philosophy analytical, mathematical works and their social activism)


"God used beautiful mathematics in the creation of the world" (Paul Dirac, United Kingdom 1902-United States 1984) was an electrical engineer, mathematician and British theoretical physicist who contributed to the development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. describing the behavior of the fermions and predicting the existence of antimatter, Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger.


 "Mathematics, properly appreciated, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a cold and austere beauty, like that of sculpture" (Bertrand Russell)


"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, only for its beauty" (Archimedes of Syracuse was a physicist, engineer, inventor, astronomer and Greek mathematician.) Although few details of his life are known, it is considered one of the most important scientists of classical antiquity)


"Mathematics is the place where truth and beauty are the same thing" (Danica McKellar is an American actress and mathematician born in California in 1975. She is remembered for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years.)


"The mathematician is fascinated by the marvelous beauty of the forms he builds, and in this beauty he finds eternal truth" (George Bernard Shaw was a playwright, critic and Irish polemicist whose influence on Western theater, culture and politics extends from 1880 to the present day)


"The beauty of mathematics is shown to her most patient followers" (Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.) In 2014, she was awarded the Fields Medal and was the first woman to receive this award equivalent to Nobel Prize in Mathematics, he died at the age of 40, with cancer, just like Srinivasa Ramanujan, he could have contributed a lot to mathematics and humanity, and in his unfinished work he dealt with various topics of dynamic systems and geometry, but specialized in the understanding of the symmetry of surfaces Mirzakhani thought of surfaces as a model for understanding objects of superior dimensions).


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