Finding a treasure is like working on algebra equations, all you have to do is find the X — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Even athletic directors can do the simple math. Five conferences, five power conferences, and only four slots. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
“That was why he had always liked mathematics. There were right or wrong answers there. Not like the other hippie subjects they… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“that would involve dividing by zero, which mathematics doesn’t allow. (No use to ask “What happens if I do?” Yo u can’t.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we've just got all-or-nothing. We need to give people another… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image