Scary old Indian aphorism
As are the crests on the heads of peacocks, as are the gems on the hoods of cobras, so is mathematics, at the top of all sciences.
-- The Yajurveda, circa 600 B.C. (quoted in "Spectral Theory of Dynamical Systems" by M.G. Nadkarni)
-- The Yajurveda, circa 600 B.C. (quoted in "Spectral Theory of Dynamical Systems" by M.G. Nadkarni)
posted by johnk at
8:36 PM
3 Comments:
ah 600 bc.. . . .
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Christopher, At
1:24 AM
The good old days... life was simpler when Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar ruled the world .
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johnk, At
10:11 AM
and men had long curly beards to get gnats stuck in.
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Christopher, At
6:17 AM
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