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数学
Math
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
我总是在计算数字，所以我的计算器手表是必须的。
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication.
有时候，如果我真的绞尽脑汁，我可以做乘法。
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
科学的目的总是把复杂性降低到简单性。
I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
很明显，我在学校学过数学。我爱我所有的数学老师。
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
数学家不研究对象，而是研究对象之间的关系。
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
我很高兴能在大学里学习物理和数学。
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
数学是一种给不同事物取相同名字的艺术。
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
我发现了很多非常漂亮的定理。
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
物理学依赖于一个无限以等号为中心的宇宙。
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
科学中只有物理学;其余的都是集邮。
Anything could happen in a cosmos that was part math and part magic.
在一个部分是数学，部分是魔术的宇宙中，任何事情都可能发生。
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
数学就像去健身房锻炼大脑。它使你的头脑敏锐。
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
理智的头脑不应该犯逻辑谬误，然而，也有一些非常优秀的头脑无法遵循数学论证。
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程，我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。
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!
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。
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
现在的创造性数学家和过去一样，只受他们对对称性、简明性和普遍性的感觉以及对事物适应性的一种无法定义的感觉的指导，他们受到数学艺术的启发，而不是受到任何最终有用的前景的启发。
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。