Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
You don't need a Ph.D. in mathematics to be a successful poker player. — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams 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
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
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about… — John B. Conway Copy Share Image
You never know when I plus U; it will be US. Not IU cuz when 1 + 1 = 2 , not 1 + 1 = 11 — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
I am playing a principal who also teaches maths in a government school in 'Nil Battey Sannata,' the story of which is… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“There was a new math teacher who was apparently some serious eye candy. Even Amanda had cheered up after finding out that” — Stacy Claflin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine 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
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number. — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is… — John Astin Copy Share Image
A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image