It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Thursday, February 7, 2019

Two Quotes About Patterns, Poetry, And Mathematics

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A mathematician who is not
something of a poet
will never be
a complete mathematician

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Mathematics
is the classification
and study of all
possible patterns

W. W. SAWYER

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Footnote
Both quotes appear in Sawyer's book
Prelude to Mathematics
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