The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya 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
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert 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
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman 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
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
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new… — George Polya Copy Share Image
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
