Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't know much about algebra, but I know one plus one equals two and it's me and you, thats all we'll… — Beyonce Copy Share Image
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and… — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. There” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You must be the arithmetic man; you add trouble, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
Always remember that moving on is not like math that comes with a formula. It is more like the theory of general… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
