If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  • -- Johnny Ball 约翰尼·鲍尔

要使数学得到广泛的理解,我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候,大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!

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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

求你教导我们,财富不是优雅,富贵不是华丽,荣华不是美丽。

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

电视可能已经成为我们所拥有的最能引起共鸣、被广泛观察的路标。

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

数学是人类精神最美丽、最强大的创造。

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

数学不允许虚伪和模糊。

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

优雅并不在于穿一件新衣服。