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“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild Bedouin sees geometric forms but doesn't understand them ; the Sunni understands them but does not admire them; the artist, finally, perceives the perfection of figures, understands beauty, and admires order and harmony.God was the Great Geometer.He geometrized heaven and earth.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Every bird, with its wings outspread, is a book, its pages open to heaven.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Quien no desconfía de sí mismo no merece la confianza de los otros.”
― El Hombre Que Calculaba
― El Hombre Que Calculaba
“Acautelai-vos - aconselhou - contra os juízos arrebatados pela paixão porque esta desfigura muitas vezes a verdade. Aquele que olha por um vidro de cor vê todos os objetos da cor desse vidro: se o vidro é vermelho, tudo lhe parece rubro; se é amarelo, tudo se lhe apresenta completamente amarelado. A paixão está para nós como a cor do vidro para os olhos. Se alguém nos agrada, tudo lhe louvamos e desculpamos; se, ao contrário, nos aborrece, tudo lhe condenamos, ou interpretamos de modo desfavorável.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“El tapiz rojo que ocultaba a Telassim días atrás había sido cambiado por otro azul que presentaba en el centro un gran heptágono estrellado.”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“Unhappy is he who assumes the burden of a debt whose worth cannot be measured by the simple means of his own intelligence.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“¡El castigo de Dios está más cerca del pecador
de lo que están los párpados de los ojos!”
― El hombre que calculaba
de lo que están los párpados de los ojos!”
― El hombre que calculaba
“El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe. Saber es poder. Los sabios educan con el ejemplo, y nada hay que conquiste al espíritu humano más profundamente que el ejemplo (...) Socrates, filósofo griego, afirmaba con el peso de la autoridad enorme: "Sólo es útil el conocimiento que nos hace mejores". Séneca, otro pensador famoso, decía incrédulo: "¿Qué importa saber qué es una línea recta, si no se sabe lo que es la rectitud?".”
― El Hombre que Calculaba
― El Hombre que Calculaba
“sistema de numeración más antiguo es el quinario, que es el sistema en el que las unidades se agrupan de cinco en cinco.”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“To cultivate science only for its practical purpose is to despoil the soul of science.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“La primera parte, aumentada en 7, la segunda disminuida en 7, la tercera multiplicada por 7 y la cuarta divida por 7 darán el mismo resultado; vean: 7 + 7 = 14 21 – 7 = 14 2 x 7 = 14 98 : 7 = 14”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“Colocar diez soldados en cinco filas de modo que cada fila tenga cuatro soldados. El problema, de apariencia complicada, tiene una solución muy sencilla indicada en la figura en la que aparecen cinco filas de cuatro soldados cada una.”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“From the uncertainty of calculations comes the undeniable prestige of the mathematician.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“The female intelligence, well directed, can perfectly encompass the beauties and secrets of science. It”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“A collection of facts is as far from forming a body of knowledge as a mirage in the desert is from being a real oasis.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“This is the wisdom of the proud--to find a mere crumb and call it the Himalayas.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“The theory that we study today, and that appears to us impractical, might have implications in the future.... Who can imagine the repercussions of an enigma through the centuries?”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Dame, Oh Dios, fuerzas para hacer que mi amor sea fructífero y útil. Dame fuerzas para no despreciar jamás al pobre ni plegar mis rodillas ante el poder insolente. Dame fuerzas para levantar el espíritu bien alto, por encima de las banalidades cotidianas. Dame fuerzas para que me humille, con amor ante ti.”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!”
― A Caixa do Futuro
― A Caixa do Futuro
“La añoranza es calculada mediante cifras también. Distancia multiplicada por el factor Amor.”
― El Hombre Que Calculaba
― El Hombre Que Calculaba
“medalla, ¡oh príncipe!, fue grabada por un profundo conocedor del misticismo numérico. Los antiguos creían que ciertos números tenían un poder mágico. El “tres” era divino, el “siete” era el número sagrado. Los siete rubíes que vemos aquí revelan la preocupación del artista en relacionar el número 128 con el número 7. El número 128 es, como sabemos, susceptible de descomposición”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“[People] in general are good calculators.... the soldier on campaign who estimates distance in a single glance... the poet who counts syllables and verifies the cadence of his verses... the musician who applies in his compositions the laws of perfect harmony... the painter who draws with the unvarying proportions of perspective in his mind... the humble rug maker who arranges one by one the threads of his labor... All of these, O King, are fine and accomplished calculators.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Una vez es suficiente —explicó el maestro— cuando el juez, tras el análisis de la causa, se decida por el perdón. Diez veces, sin embargo, deberá pensar el magistrado siempre que esté inclinado a dar sentencia condenatoria”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“A poor wise man is he who seeks out the rich, but a nobler rich man he who seeks out wise men.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Que tu sabiduría no sea humillación para tu prójimo. Guarda el dominio de ti mismo y nunca te abandones a la cólera. Si esperas la paz definitiva, sonríe al destino que te hiere y no hieras a nadie.”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“Even before the sun shone on us, even before there was air to breathe, the square of the hypotenuse was equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“It has never occurred to me that counting millions of leaves and swarms of bees could make money. Who could possibly be interested in how many branches there are in a tree, how many birds in a flight that crosses the sky?”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“If you do not know how to calculate exactly, your visions are worth nothing; if you arrive at them through calculation alone, I disbelieve them.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“Los viles aduladores que se arrastran en las cortes sobre la alfombra de los poderosos pueden, al principio”
― El hombre que calculaba
― El hombre que calculaba
“And the female brain,’ said the holy man, ‘is incapable of grasping the first principles of geometry.”
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures




