The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything? — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you… — Ashley Young Copy Share Image
Do you like maths, if so add a bed, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and can we multiply? — Azgraybebly Josland 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
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
“Some could say it is the external world which has molded our thinking-that is, the operation of the human brain-into what is… — Stanislaw M. Ulam Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner 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
“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare 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
Dear Math, I liked you so much more before you and the alphabet started hooking up. Sincerely, everyone. — Khat Leen 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. — David Hilbert 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
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
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
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make. — Richard Quest 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
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image