Irrational Numbers Quotes

• The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

  Joe Hill

  Forever, Soul, Goes On

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• Dios nos ha dado la fascinación y el misterio de los números irracionales, como un aspecto de un rico mundo

  Vern Poythress

  Fascination, World, Mystery

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• And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Legends, Students, Graduates

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Los números transfinitos son en cierto sentido las nuevas irracionalidades [ ...] se mantienen o caen con los números irracionales finitos.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Mathematics, Finite

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• What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

  Leopold Kronecker

  Beautiful, Science, Problem

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• I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.

  Yann Martel

  Names, Understanding, Together

  Entrevista, www.bookbrowse.com. 2 de octubre de 2002.

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• Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Math, Numbers, Law

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• Los números transfinitos son, en cierto sentido, nuevas irracionalidades y, de hecho, en mi opinión, el mejor método para definir los números irracionales finitos es totalmente diferente, e incluso podría decir que en principio es el mismo, que mi método descrito anteriormente para introducir los números transfinitos. Se puede decir incondicionalmente: los números transfinitos están o no están con los números irracionales finitos; se parecen en su ser más íntimo; porque los primeros como los segundos son formas delimitadas o modificaciones del infinito real.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Numbers, Finite Number

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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• Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

  Abraham Robinson

  Thinking, Oddities, Discovery

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