A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.… — Sterling Beaumon Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“I suspect gentlemen, that you're regarding me with pity; you keep repeating to me that an enlightened and cultured man -- such… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and… — James May Copy Share Image
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new -… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
“Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“My high numbers were test scores, the low numbers and zeros: homework. Because my brain stores random unimportant bits of information like… — Laura Creedle Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
It's probably the wrong way round, I know, but I just love maths and doing equations. When I was a kid, I… — Lucy Bronze Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team.… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
“It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
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