A new initiative for mathematics enthusiasts. Stamatics presents the Second edition of Alpha, a newsletter of Mathematics and Statistics Department.
Quote of the Day
. If people do not believe that mathematics is
simple, it is only becausethey do not realize how complicated life is .
John van Neumann
. The mathematical sciences
particularly exhibit
order, symmetry, and limitation;
and these are the greatest forms
of the beautiful .
Aristotle
. Mathematicians are [like]
a sort of Frenchmen;
if you talk to them,
they translate it
into their own language,
and then it is immediately
something quite different .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
. Mathematics is
the queen of sciences
and arithmetic is
the queen of mathematics .
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
. The study of mathematics,
like the Nile,
begins in minuteness
but ends in magnificence .
