Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that’s luck… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we obtain a set of numbers we call integers.… — Judith Sowder Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it. — Wim Hof Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae. — Claude Simon Copy Share Image
“Two plus two is not sometimes equal to four! It is equal to four plus one, for one is a powerful amalgamation.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Dear Algebra stop trying to get us to find your x shes never coming back. And don't even think about asking y. — Mario Tomasello Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
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