Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.” — Bruce Schechter Copy Share Image
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so… — Henri Poincare 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
Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac 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
“Instead of the unity of worshiping one Supreme God, they sought division, the trinity. Here come the greatest mathematicians of all time,… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein 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
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
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
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
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers 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
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
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
“O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio 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
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
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians.… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“When I interviewed one of the mathematicians in the study, he asked me if I knew how to define a function. I… — Ken Bain 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