Mathematical Quotes · Page 42

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing…

— George Johnson

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

— Portia Doubleday

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

— Andrew Wiles

Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no…

— Noam Chomsky

I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory…

— Charlie Munger

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]…

— Francois-Joseph Servois

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special…

— David Hilbert

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can…

— Eric Bell

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are…

— Heinrich Hertz

In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it…

— Eyvind Kang

I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask…

— Noreena Hertz

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an…

— William Stanley Jevons

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

— Bertrand Russell

How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is…

— David van Dantzig

There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we…

— Cathy O'Neil

My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most…

— Mario Bunge

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then…

— Paul McCartney

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…

— Richard Courant

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have…

— Saint Augustine

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract…

— Robert Penn Warren

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this…

— James R Newman

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio