James Joseph Sylvester

1814–1897

English mathematician

May not music be described as the mathematics of sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music -- music the dream, mathematics the working life.

TOPICS: music

Mathematics…Is as limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer’s gaze.

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