James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.

James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.