“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30… — Elizabeth Green Copy Share Image
I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way… — Annika Sorenstam Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in… — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
“I never had a mind for math. I simply couldn't hold the formulas and numbers in my head. It was logic that… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
