Mathematical Games

Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or games:

    “The most distinct and beautiful statement of any truth must take at last the mathematical form.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)