The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year,… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its… — David Mumford 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
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and… — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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