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Andreea Arnautu

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
- William Paul Thurston

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“Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”
–E. T. Bell

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Manuel Ceja

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein.

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Ezra Chikamba

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

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Isaac Gonzales

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
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Vianey Lopez Marrufo

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
- William Paul Thurston

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Dominic Marquez

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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Lucas Mazzarella

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
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Manaia Mcafee

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
Shakuntala Devi

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Eliana Moultrie

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
-Paul Klee

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Daneyra Rico

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
–William Paul Thurston

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Jeremy Spurgeon

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
-Paul Halmos

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Vannary Tep

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
—Shakuntala Devi

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Isaac Trojnar

If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.
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Xavier Valerio

“Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”
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Walker Wenzel

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
–Albert Einstein

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Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions

I AM about to appear very inconsistent. In previous sections I have said that all figures in Flatland present the appearance of a straight line; and it was added or implied, that it is consequently impossible to distinguish by the visual organ between individuals of different classes: yet now I am about to explain to my Spaceland critics how we are able to recognize one another by the sense of sight.

If however the Reader will take the trouble to refer to the passage in which Recognition by Feeling is stated to be universal, he will find this qualification - "among the lower classes." It is only among the higher classes and in our temperate climates that Sight Recognition is practised.

That this power exists in any regions and for any classes is the result of Fog; which prevails during the greater part of the year in all parts save the torrid zones. That which is with you in Spaceland an unmixed evil, blotting out the landscape, depressing the spirits, and enfeebling the health, is by us recognized as a blessing scarcely inferior to air itself, and as the Nurse of arts and Parent of sciences. But let me explain my meaning, without further eulogies on this beneficent Element.

If Fog were non-existent, all lines would appear equally and indistinguishably clear; and this is actually the case in those unhappy countries in which the atmosphere is perfectly dry and. transparent. But wherever there is a rich supply of Fog objects that are at a distance, say of three feet, are appreciably dimmer than those at a distance of two feet eleven inches; and the result is that by careful and constant experimental observation of comparative dimness and clearness, we are enabled to infer with great exactness the configuration of the object observed.

An instance will do more than a volume of generalities to make my meaning clear.

Suppose I see two individuals approaching whose rank I wish to ascertain. They are, we will suppose, a Merchant and a Physician, or in other words, an Equilateral Triangle and a Pentagon: how am I to distinguish them?

By: Edwin A. Abbott - Exercept from, "Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions"