“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
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
“he came into the store to threaten you with math and philosophy. The motherfucker’s going down.” — Jonathan L. Howard 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
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Anonymous 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
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of… — Johanna Drucker Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye 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
“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth… — Robert Burnham Copy Share Image
Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology. — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
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
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y… — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. — Janos Bolyai Copy Share Image
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
