What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. — David Mumford 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
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes 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
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had… — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image
All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it… — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
One way of looking at Impossibility Theorem is that we proposed some criteria for what a good system should be: what is… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra,… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However,… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson 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
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
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long… — Barry Mazur 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
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the… — G. H. Hardy 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
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