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for the Fordham
Math Department, prospective students, and visitors from the Internet.
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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just any scientist, either, oh, no, only
the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language is mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to
her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contain the essential meaning of life."
-- Pearl S. Buck
" At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as
first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world."
-- Bertrand Russell
Last time, I asked: "What does mathematics mean to you?" And some people answered: "The manipulation of numbers, the manipulation of structures." And if I had asked what music means to you, would you have answered: "The manipulation of notes?"
-- S. Lang
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hastings at fordham dot edu
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This site last updated July 27, 2005.