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.
About James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvesterwas an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
English mathematician (1814-1897)
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
English mathematician (1814-1897)
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.
English mathematician (1814-1897)
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.
English mathematician (1814-1897)