The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations.… — Max Born Copy Share Image
In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have… — Arthur Porges Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
