... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Every time I see a math word problem it looks like this: If I have 10 ice cubes and you have 11… — Babloo Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution. — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in… — Allie X Copy Share Image
One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself.… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Science is like a big sudoku puzzle, when you find a new number it helps you figure out a new one until… — Eve Halimi Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn Copy Share Image
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use… — Roy Crowson Copy Share Image
