The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that.… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite,… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really,… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh.… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would help us with our homework and dad… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost… — John Nash Copy Share Image
