May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a… — Goro Shimura Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have… — Arthur Porges Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover.… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
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