Maricella Gallegos
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet submiely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as the only greatest art can show...”
–Bertrand Russell
Kristen Hom
“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.”
–Mickey Mouse
Kyler Jurney
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
–Albert Einstein
Patricio Larrea
“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."
—Richard Courant
Johnathan Marquez
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
—Albert Einstein
Jazmyn Miranda
“One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.”
–Philip J Davis
Jesus Segura
"It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than solve five problems one way"
-George Polya
Willow Sprague-Robinson
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.”
-William Paul Thurston
Erica Vasquez
"I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforwardanswer at the end."
-Mark Haddon
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"