Top 31 Quotes About Mathematical Proof
#1. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#2. A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.
Sara Sheridan
#3. A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
Hermann Weyl
#4. I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
Paul Auster
#5. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.
Sam Newman
#6. What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.
Timothy Gowers
#8. In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
Eyvind Kang
#9. A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#10. Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.
G.H. Hardy
#12. All truths in science must be demonstrated either through experiment or through mathematical proof. The idea that something must be so because Newton or Einstein said so is simply not scientific.
Dalai Lama XIV
#13. Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#14. Euclid ... manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.
Lucio Russo
#15. I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.
Lucas Papademos
#16. Trouble's not only my middle name, it's my first and last, too.
Nalini Singh
#17. The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.
Nick Harkaway
#18. I hate being wrong, and I hate when people give up.
Jenna Morasca
#19. Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
Walter Payton
#20. Wait a minute," Quentin said. "Who or what is the Thames dragon?" "The Thames dragon," Eliot said. "You know. The dragon who lives in the Thames.
Lev Grossman
#21. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.
Proclus
#22. All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.
Morris Kline
#23. The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
Joyce Maynard
#24. Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
John Locke
#25. Mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that "4" means the same as "2+2". Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.
Bertrand Russell
#26. It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.
Emil Artin
#27. It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
#28. All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
Timothy Keller
#29. I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.
Hillary Clinton
#30. I'm Winnie the Pooh - that's as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It's about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.
Bob Hoskins
#31. I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.
Tyler Labine
