Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot… — Reuben Hersh Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange , Laplace , and Gauss , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note… — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
“360 degrees of the circle can be divided evenly by all integers from 1 through 10 except 7; thus, 7 was considered… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Modern mathematics contains much more than that, of course. It includes set theory, for example, created by Georg Cantor in 1874, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“A math teacher’s least favorite thing to hear from a student is “I get the concept, but I couldn’t do the problems.”… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration -… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions… — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Copy Share Image
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