What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
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