The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two… — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check". — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS? ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS. MY FRIEND:… — KanyaACoffman Copy Share Image
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.” — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
“The fact that trig functions cyclically output the same numbers as ever larger angles are plugged into them, by the way, explains… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a… — Christopher Steiner Copy Share Image
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.” — David A. Monty Copy Share Image
“You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“However, mathematics-inspired books such as Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with its valuable, realworld lessons on subtraction) are fair game.” — John Pearson Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I… — Khleo Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I hate mathematics but It all appears that life is actually factorizing your dreams,change of thoughts & stastistically taking a step. — Colynx Mckobby Akwetey Jnr Copy Share Image
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
