The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
Everyone in sport chant; We're number one, we're number one. And someone asks; What's wrong with being number two? — Movie Copy Share Image
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Im still waiting for the day that I will actually use all the Mathematics formula in real life ! — Carissa Aydaa Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
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
“playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America’s obvious and enduring math handicap.… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole Copy Share Image
“I'm the 'e' in mathematics. Overlooked and forgotten, unless it is known well or studied closely. Neither is likely.” — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
