The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy 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
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract… — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for… — Alfred Tarski 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
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
