I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful. — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
Remember when everyone lied and said you couldn't subtract a larger number from a lesser number and in high school, it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Given that sin x = 1⁄4 and x is in Quadrant II, find the exact values of sin2 x and cos2 x… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sex is like math: You add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded,… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
“Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
If you want to be at the top, if you want to be number one, you need to play against some of… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“If there were formula for success, mathematicians would have definitely held the top spot in the world's richest list.” — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward… — Sariah Wilson Copy Share Image
