Christie, Agatha
I continued to do
arithmetic with my
father, passing
proudly through
fractions to
decimals. I
eventually arrived
at the point where
so many cows ate so
much grass, and
tanks filled with
water in so many
hours. I found it
quite enthralling.
Christie, Agatha
"I think you're
begging the
question," said
Haydock, "and I can
see looming ahead
one of those
terrible exercises
in probability where
six men have white
hats and six men
have black hats and
you have to work it
out by mathematics
how likely it is
that the hats will
get mixed up and in
what proportion. If
you start thinking
about things like
that, you would go
round the bend. Let
me assure you of
that!"
The Mirror Crack'd.
Toronto: Bantam
Books, 1962.
Chesterton, G. K. (1874 - 1936)
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
The Point of a Pin in The Scandal of Father Brown.
Chesterton, G. K. (1874 - 1936)
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
The Man who was Orthodox. 1963.
Chekov, Anton (1860 - 1904)
There is no national
science just as
there is no national
multiplication
table; what is
national is no
longer science.
In V. P. Ponomarev,
Mysli o nauke
Kishinev, 1973.
Chesterton, G. K. (1874 - 1936)
Poets do not go mad;
but chess-players
do. Mathematicians
go mad, and
cashiers; but
creative artists
very seldom. I am
not, as will be
seen, in any sense
attacking logic: I
only say that this
danger does lie in
logic, not in
imagination.
Cayley, Arthur
Projective geometry is all geometry.
In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
Cezanne, Paul (1839 - 1906)
...treat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone...
Cayley, Arthur
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (1789 - 1857)
Men pass away, but
their deeds
abide.
[His
last words, perhaps]
In H. Eves,
Mathematical Circles
Revisited, Boston:
Prindle, Weber and
Schmidt, 1971.