A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
“A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important… — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
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