The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is… — Brian L. Silver Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all.… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“Every single day, someone asks Mr. Stetman why we have to learn algebra. You can tell this causes him great personal pain.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Now be honest-wouldn't you have expected e^i*pi to be (a) gibberish aling the lines of "elephant inkpie," or, if it were mathematically… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wars and chaoses and paradoxes ago, two mathematicians between them ended an age d began another for our hosts, our ghosts called… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly,” Pestalozzi wrote, and “the learning of… — Walter Isaacson 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
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
“students who were told to think about the happiest day of their lives right before taking a standardized math test outperformed their… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
“Since September, I sat one seat behind Anna in algebra. Passed papers to her every day. Studied for tons of tests together.… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image
