The Maths Gene Quotes

“At first, calculus was mainly directed toward the study of physics, and many of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mathematicians were also physicists.”
― Keith Devlin , The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip by Keith Devlin

“I shall also have to look deeply into the nature of language. I will have to explain the difference between language, which appears to be unique to humans, and a system of communication, which many species possess in varying degrees of complexity.”
― Keith Devlin , The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip by Keith Devlin