Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
A man who says marriage is a 50-50 proposition doesn't understand two things: 1 - Women, 2 - Fractions. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
If you don't treat yourself like number one then others will treat you like number two. — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Hands-on learning and the use of tools, he says, helps us to want to learn, to get rapid feedback, and to actually… — Shane Snow Copy Share Image
This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I dont want to be your number one. Number one implies that there is a number two and maybe a number three.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Math questions are so stupid! Theyre like If I have 5 bottles in one hand and 6 in the other, what do… — Scott Copy Share Image
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. — Roger Bacon 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
Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.” — A.R. Wise Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
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