Sometimes you just gotta sit down and think about some math questions.
Mathematics, rightly viewed,
Possesses not only Truth,
But supreme Beauty
Beauty cold and austere,like sculpture,
Without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
Without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music,
Yet sublimely pure,
Capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
The true spirit of delight,
The exaltation,
The sense of being more than Man,
which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,
Is to be found in mathematics
As surely as in poetry.
--BERTRAND RUSSELL, Study of Mathematics
Possesses not only Truth,
But supreme Beauty
Beauty cold and austere,like sculpture,
Without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
Without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music,
Yet sublimely pure,
Capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
The true spirit of delight,
The exaltation,
The sense of being more than Man,
which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,
Is to be found in mathematics
As surely as in poetry.
--BERTRAND RUSSELL, Study of Mathematics
posted by Old Stallion at 7:12 PM
1 Comments:
Man, I love Bertrand Russell. And years of being the math archivist proved to me that this is totally true.
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