What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of… — David Blaine 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
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri Copy Share Image
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
“Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.” — Suzette Vearnon Copy Share Image
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will… — Thales Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
