Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Bertrand Russell
6 comments:
Dude..... Too poetic.
Pen it down in simpler worsd for the common man.
-K
yeh kahaan se mileh???
i mean srsly, you love math to the point of searching for famous guys' quotes??
It wuda bin kinda easier to believe that you wrote that yourself you know...
@PGM:
It wuda bin kinda easier to believe that you wrote that yourself you know...
lol!
I found that while i was wiki-searching for pythagoras' original proof of the famous theorem.
lol ok :P
thought I'd share this one too... I mean, im not blogging any more, and its pretty relevant to this topic. Got it in the preface of this book...
"It is a basic principle in the study of mathematics, and one too seldom emphasized, that a proof is not really understood until the stage is reached at which one can grasp it as a whole and see it as a single idea. In achieving this end, much more is necessary than merely following the individual steps in the reasoning. This is only the beginning. A proof should be chewed, swallowed, and digested, and this process of assimilation should not be abandoned until it yields a full comprehension of the overall pattern of thought."
Long oops... and maybe it mightve fit equally well in your next post, but anyway...
Keep going!
@pgm:
Preface to which book?
some topology book.
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