“I had written this paper on pancake numbers with help from my adviser, Manuel Blum, who's a well-known computer scientist, and we… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
