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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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

优雅不是那些刚刚走出青春期的人的特权,而是那些已经掌握了自己未来的人的特权。

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

在数学中,提出问题的艺术必须比解决问题更有价值。

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。

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

优雅不是忘了自己穿什么吗?

There are no creeds in mathematics.

数学中没有信条。