Math jokes arent funny, nothing about math is funny, math is a sin(e). — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I just learned this sub-teaching. . . Teacher (math problem): If you had five apples on your desk and the boy next… — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra,… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading. — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The two important variables for the policy formulation are projected inflation and the output gap. There is no clear hidebound mathematics that… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
“An essential pedagogic step here is to relegate the teaching of mathematical methods in economics to mathematics departments. Any mathematical training in… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
