/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2676499]

ITT: Badass Mathematician quotes:

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." - G.H. Hardy

[Josef !!nUf2NflSAyw No.2676507]

That quote deserves a polemics award.

[Anonymous No.2676516]

"I don't believe in the empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth." - Kurt Godel

[Anonymous No.2676520]

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." - Benoit Mandelbrot

[Anonymous No.2676523]

"I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No", he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two [positive] cubes in two different ways." "

one of my favorite tales of Ramanujan.
There are also Dirac stories of the same fashion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number

>>2676507
hey, hallo ;)

[Josef !!nUf2NflSAyw No.2676529]

>>2676523
Oh, hallo AlgebraGuy der gar nicht so viel mit Algebra am Hut hat.
Das ist n ziemlich langer Name, daher schlage ich einfach kurz AlgebraGuy vor.

[Anonymous No.2676532]

"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God." - Ramanujan

[Anonymous No.2676547]

Another G.H. Hardy quote:

"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way."

[Josef !!nUf2NflSAyw No.2676552]

>>2676547
That would be a nice entry to the classical "invention or discovery" discussion. My philo prof recommended me a book on the subject, but it wasn't in the library at that time. Hmpf. (Should check again, I know)

[Anonymous No.2676555]

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country." - David Hilbert

[Anonymous No.2676556]

"Yeah, right in your throat!"

The male lead in "Anal Stories 4"

[Anonymous No.2676564]

>>2676552
You should really read A Mathematician's Apology. Hardy goes into detail about the philosophy of mathematics; he even argues that mathematical reality is more real than physical reality.

[Josef !!nUf2NflSAyw No.2676571]

>>2676564
Didn't even know Hardy. Will look into it.

[Anonymous No.2676575]

I see someone has just taken Number Theory 1.

I'm proud of you, anon.

[Anonymous No.2676574]

"There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

[Anonymous No.2676572]

"math is for faggots and people with no imagination" - Albert Einstein

[Anonymous No.2676577]

>>2676575
Nope. First year math major only. Am excited for Number Theory though.

[Anonymous No.2676584]

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Sir Isaac Newton

[Anonymous No.2676591]

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

[Anonymous No.2676596]

"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate." Leonhard Euler

[Anonymous No.2676609]

"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain." - Pierre de Fermat

[Anonymous No.2676618]

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." - Bertrand Russell

[Anonymous No.2676627]

"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas" - Pythagoras

[Anonymous No.2676638]

Is there a more "badass", cool or funny mathematican?
Like Feynman is in physics.

[Anonymous No.2676662]

>>2676638
Ian Stewart, probably.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stewart_(mathematician)

[Anonymous No.2676687]

"never shy away from difficult problems because you might learn something new"

or something along those lines...I forgot who said it =/

[Anonymous No.2676701]

>>2676687
it was your father, when he convinced you to suck his dick.

> There you go, son.
> See how easy this was?
> Don't tell mom.

[Anonymous No.2676878]

"herp derp ritalin benzedrine, ritalin"

[Anonymous No.2676906]

Erdos = 0 > Feynman = -3

[Anonymous No.2677728]

Another G.H. Hardy quote:

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean."