Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“Topology is that branch of mathematics which is interested in the forms of things aside from their size and shape, Two things… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think.… — Kevin Sorbo Copy Share Image
“Problem Solving Toolbox • Draw a diagram or picture. • Act the problem out, step by step. • Make a systematic list,… — Denise Gaskins Copy Share Image
“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any… — Pierre de Fermat s Copy Share Image
“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower… — Alison Charlotte Primrose 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
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
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“The association of multiplication with vector rotation was one of the geometric interpretation's most important elements because it decisively connected the imaginaries… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity… — John Pople Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a… — Goro Shimura Copy Share Image
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
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