A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
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