Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination. — Leonard Koppett Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“If he would just work with pure ideas like a proper mathematician he could go as fast as thought. As it happens,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
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