Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
“any number of peas under the mattress and I would not know it—” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that… — Latto Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the story of algebra. It all began in the remote past, with a simple turn of thought from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.… — James Newman Copy Share Image
