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数学
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I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
我终于得出结论，数学是我最适合从事的研究，尽管我不清楚该用什么方法来解释这个问题。
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.
出于同样的原因，我欣赏数学，因为我不会做数学。如果我要看地图或算出餐馆账单上的小费，我可能会开始流泪。
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
我不介意学习。很明显，数学和物理学科比一些艺术学科更吸引我，但我认为我是一个很好的学生。
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!
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
如果有四个方程，只有三个变量，而且没有一个方程可以通过代数运算从其他方程中推导出来，那么就少了另一个变量。
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
数学家们并不满意，因为他们知道不存在四百万到四十亿的解，他们真正想知道的是不存在无穷大的解。
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
有些数学问题看起来很简单，你试了一年左右，然后你试了一百年，结果发现它们非常难解。
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
数学科学在我们中间发展的时机还不成熟，任何朝着这个方向可能发生的发展都被内战粗暴地制止了。
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
据我所知，只有一小部分数学家，甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者，接受这样的观点，即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
真正的快乐精神，兴奋，超越自我的感觉，这是最优秀的试金石，在数学和诗歌中都能找到。
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
量子理论的数学框架已经通过无数成功的测试，现在被普遍接受为对所有原子现象的一致和准确的描述。
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
所有的物理系统都可以被看作是信息的注册和处理，一个人希望如何定义计算将决定你对计算组成部分的看法。
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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。
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
我一直擅长数学和科学，我从来没有意识到这是不寻常的或不受欢迎的。
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。
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
数学的本质在于它的自由。
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
数学是人类精神最美丽、最强大的创造。
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
数学水平是通往许多学生可能从未考虑过的令人难以置信的职业的大门。