The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier Copy Share Image
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
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