No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,… — Hilda Phoebe Hudson Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
