Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“he came into the store to threaten you with math and philosophy. The motherfucker’s going down.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What is love, In math it's a math problem, In history it's a battle, In science it's a reaction... But in my… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
As more girls get basic schooling, larger numbers will move up the educational ladder - some to pursue science, technology, engineering, and… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...” — Doug Pierce Copy Share Image
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their… — Sara Wachter-Boettcher Copy Share Image
We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved. — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
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