If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  • -- Johnny Ball 约翰尼·鲍尔

要使数学得到广泛的理解,我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候,大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!

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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

数学存在的时间越长,它就变得越抽象,因此也可能变得越实用。

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

电视可能已经成为我们所拥有的最能引起共鸣、被广泛观察的路标。

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

优雅是良好的品味加上一点大胆。

Elegance is refusal.

优雅是拒绝。