I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling… — Andrew Sturm Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image