Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect,… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
