“No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.” ArtSaidFilmFormArtistCommunicationMusicianPainterRepeatsMakersMathematician Book:Parthian Words Source: Parthian Words
“Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.” WorldShouldWritingHardScienceSoundShareSourceBalanceMusicianEmpathyCriticismMathematicsCompetitionDelightComplicatedExcitementScoreCosmosInclusionMathematicianSolidarityControversyExclusion Author:Gil Kalai
“A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.” FirstsReadingMusicianPagesBarsMathematicianRecogniseSchubert Author:Ludwig Boltzmann
“We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.” HumansHuman BeingsStudentsDevelopmentMusicianCapacityConcernedScientistJust OneMathematician Book:Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.” ThinkingYearsBodyFatherUnderstandingEffectsFineThousandMusicianYears AgoAvailableToneMathematicianThousand YearsParts Of The Body Author:Paul Horn