My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking. — Michaela Watkins Copy Share Image
Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon 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 - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow 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
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
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a… — Edsger Dijkstra 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 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
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham 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
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous 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
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang 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
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes 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
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
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