The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya Copy Share Image
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a… — William Winwood Reade 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
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Life's challenges are no tougher than complex mathematical problems that require all simple equations with factors like X and Y to find… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and… — Michael Atiyah 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
An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
