数学名言A-Z

Abel

It appears to me that if one wishes to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.
我觉得一个人要在数学上有所建树，他应该努力向大师看齐，而不是大师的学生们。

Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
使用错误的数据比没有数据要更糟糕。

Cantor

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
数学的本质在于它的自由。

Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
完美数就像完美的人一样稀少。

Euclid

There is no royal way in geometry.
几何之路无王者之径。

Frege

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
一个好的数学家，至少是半个哲学家；一个好的哲学家，至少是半个数学家。

Gauss

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
理论吸引实践就像磁铁吸引铁。

Hardy

Young Men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
年轻人应该证明定理，老年人才应该写书立著。

I

i is a special number.
我是一个虚数。

Jacobi

God ever arithmetizes.
上帝是一位数论学家。

Kepler

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
我曾丈量天空，现在测量幽冥。上天赐予我灵魂，大地收容我俗身。

Littlewood

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.
请尝试难的问题。你可能解决不了它，但你会证明一些别的东西。

Mandelbrot

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
云朵不是球形的，海岸线不是圆的，树干不是光滑的，闪电也不沿直线传播。

Newton

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

如果说我比别人看得更远些，那是因为我站在了巨人的肩上。

Ockham

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
如无必要，勿增实体。

Pythagoras

Number is the within of all things.
万物皆数。

Quetelet

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness.
人生的参差多态是幸福的本源。

Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.
数学是理性的音乐。

Turing

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of , that do the things that no one can imagine.
有时候，被世人遗弃的人，才能成就让人想像不到的大事。

Von-Neumann

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
如果有人不相信数学是简单的，那是因为他们没有意识到人生有多复杂。

Wittgenstein

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
无以言表处，缄默不语时。

Zeno

Reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less. 
我们有两只耳朵，一张嘴巴的原因是我们可以多听而少说。

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