There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one. — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
A man who says marriage is a 50-50 proposition doesn't understand two things: 1 - Women, 2 - Fractions. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All polynomials of degree n-those that have a leading term of x^n- split into n distinct terms. This is the fundamental theorem… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
“A significant difference between Pacioli’s book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
“I perform my job ten times a day. Seven days a week. For nine years. You do the math.” — Anne Tibbets Copy Share Image
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Only in a math problem can a person buy 60 cantaloupes and not be questioned. — Peanuts Copy Share Image
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“e,x: there were no two letters in all english or mathematics that were more baeutiful” — Lauren Kunze Copy Share Image
“It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.” — Hollis Seamon Copy Share Image
A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who can, within a year, solve x 2 - 92y 2 = 1 is a mathematician. — Brahmagupta Copy Share Image
