What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know that it deals with numbers, figures, with relations, operations, and that its formal procedures involving axioms,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
