The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound… — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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