“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle Copy Share Image
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Math will totally make you look like a slut. Example: You're a 25 year old mother of a 9th grader. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“This is not mathematics, it is theology. (On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)” — Paul Gordan Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca… — Midhat Gazale Copy Share Image
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
