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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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

数学可以被定义为这样一门学科:我们永远不知道自己在说什么,也不知道自己所说的是否属实。

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

求你教导我们,财富不是优雅,富贵不是华丽,荣华不是美丽。

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

优雅不是可有可无的奢侈品,而是决定成败的因素。

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。

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

数学是不存在的,除非我们把它放在那里。