A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Carl Benjamin Boyer Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image