Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“I am not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless I'm always saying that… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since September, I sat one seat behind Anna in algebra. Passed papers to her every day. Studied for tons of tests together.… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough...also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.… — John Nash Copy Share Image
What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
“students who were told to think about the happiest day of their lives right before taking a standardized math test outperformed their… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“Every single day, someone asks Mr. Stetman why we have to learn algebra. You can tell this causes him great personal pain.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Now be honest-wouldn't you have expected e^i*pi to be (a) gibberish aling the lines of "elephant inkpie," or, if it were mathematically… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all.… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is… — Brian L. Silver Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
