Quotes Tagged With :arithmetic

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and....

A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting....

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read....

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far....

There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy,....

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics....

If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about....

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute....

It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less....

Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic.....