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James Joseph Sylvester
English
Mathematician
About the author
Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester,
English
Mathematician
#Reason
#Music
#Mathematics
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
James Joseph Sylvester,
English
Mathematician
#Life
#Reason
#May
#Sense
#Music
#Dream
#Mathematics
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
James Joseph Sylvester,
English
Mathematician
#Study
#Geometry
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
James Joseph Sylvester,
English
Mathematician
#World
#Laws
#Intelligence
#Physics
#Mathematics