A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim 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
The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth π should have the value of "3". The… — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, my math teacher Mr. Packwood used to say, "If you're stuck on a problem, don't sit… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
