Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Mathematics is the music of reason.
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
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