“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
“It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.” — Hollis Seamon Copy Share Image
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
What is love, In math it's a math problem, In history it's a battle, In science it's a reaction... But in my… — Tyga Copy Share Image
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Math is the only place where I hear someone doing ridiculous things. For Example John has 30 chocolate bar he eats 23,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
