Quotations XXIII: The Poetry of Logical Ideas

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It’s been ages since I posted any blackboard quotes, so here are a few gems from last semester. [Hat tip: I found most of the quotes in this list at The Quote Garden’s Quotations about Math page.]

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

— Albert Einstein

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.

— Anonymous
From The Quote Garden

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

— Dean Schlicter
[Does anyone know who he is? Plenty of people quote him, but I can’t find a single link about the man himself.]

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John Kemeny

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

— Hilda Phoebe Hudson

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