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数学
Math
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
坚决拒绝在代数课上保持清醒。在现实生活中，我向你保证，没有代数这种东西。
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
在我看来，只强调美就像一个数学系统，只关注它自己的正数。
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
如果我在沉睡了一千年后醒来，我的第一个问题将是:黎曼假说是否得到了证实?
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
数学科学尤其表现出顺序对称性和局限性;这些都是美的最伟大的形式。
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
正是数学本身的永葆青春，使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。
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。
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
一个安全的规则是，当一个数学或哲学作家以一种模糊的深度写作时，他是在胡说八道。
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
数学把我们带入绝对必然性的领域，在这个领域里，不仅实际的词，而且每一个可能的词都必须符合。
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
如果你喜欢数学并且写小说，你就很少有机会把你的数学写进小说里。我抓住了这个机会。
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
在我看来，数学科学是一个不可分割的整体，是一个有机体，它的活力取决于各部分之间的联系。
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
没有理由对自己刻板印象。做数学就像去健身房——这是对你大脑的一种锻炼，它让你更聪明。
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
因此，从某种意义上说，数学是由那些靠直觉而不是靠严格的证明来突出自己的人发展起来的。
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
数学和物理对世界的抽象分析建立在空间和时间的概念上。
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!
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!
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
纯粹的数学家只是喜欢尝试未解决的问题——他们喜欢挑战。
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
可以想象，最终的数学家是一个能在类比之间看到类比的人。
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
所有的音乐家都是潜意识里的数学家。
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
大部分时间我喜欢学校，取得了好成绩。然而在初中的时候，我在数学上遇到了一个绊脚石——我常常回到家哭，因为我是多么的沮丧!但是经过几位好老师的努力和不懈的努力，我最终爱上了数学，甚至在我上大学时选择了数学作为我的专业。