John Derbyshire Quote

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only reply, The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of 'infinity' as if it were a number. It's not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?' I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. 'Infinity,' 'truth,' 'beauty'—those are not numbers.


Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003)


Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only ...

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only ...

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only ...

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only ...