“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“But aside from Willy’s skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a… — John Gilmore 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 truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart 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
Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“People assume you have to have some special talent to do mathematics,” Sylvia has said. “They think you’re either born with it,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“If you want me to fix your homework, you need to leave me alone.” Then he spotted her. “You’re back.” “Yeah.” She… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive… — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in… — Rachel Vail Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
![“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.” quote by Mary Everest Boole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76a/mary-everest-boole-58686_evidence_mathematics-had-never-had-more-than-a-se_23148.jpg)
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