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数学
Math
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
我不是数学家，所以我只能用图形表示。
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
音乐是声音的算术，正如光学是光的几何。
Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.
音乐帮助他运用和声和数学比例。
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
你不能运用数学，只要文字仍然掩盖现实。
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
正如这些机器不需要数学家知道自己在做什么一样。
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
我几乎不认识有推理能力的数学家。
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
你想知道如何押韵，然后学习如何加法，这是数学。
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
没有人能把我们赶出康托尔为我们创造的乐园。
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
数学家就像经理一样，他们需要的是无需改变的改进。
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
逻辑和数学只不过是特殊的语言结构。
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
我确实对数学和科学有着浓厚的兴趣;我喜欢它。
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
我对数学很感性，虽然我不擅长数学。
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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。
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
到底是什么给了我们优雅的感觉?
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。
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!
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。
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。