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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  • -- Vannevar Bush 瓦内瓦·布什

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程，我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

素数与合数的区别问题以及将合数分解为素数因子的问题是算术中最重要和最有用的问题之一。

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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望，以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向，可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

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Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

从统计数据上看，我们当中任何一个人在这里的可能性是如此之小，以至于你会认为，仅仅是存在的事实就会让我们所有人都感到满足和惊喜。

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It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. Augustus de Morgan

与数学家周旋相比，求圆的平方要容易得多。 奥古斯都•德•摩根

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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

数学是不存在的，除非我们把它放在那里。

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