We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“And I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“Fourier succeeded in proving a theorem concerning sine waves which astonished his, at first, incredulous contemporaries. He showed that any variation of… — John Robinson Pierce Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it.… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank.… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs,… — Ross Honsberger Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Merlin smiled. "Thank you, sir! It was just Game Theory." "It was just – is this a Maths thing?" "Well, Maths and… — FayJay Copy Share Image
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The way how God does his Maths to bless a person, is very high tech to a normal human being, they can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They come in here every once in a while, and she goes to one corner and he goes to the other, and… — Sandy Hall Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Donald Saari uses a combination of stories and questions to challenge students to think critically about calculus. “When I finish this process,”… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
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