America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course,… — John Green Copy Share Image
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I wasn't into math and stuff like that. I liked playing and having fun all the time. — Nav Copy Share Image
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
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