Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I dont want to be your number one. Number one implies that there is a number two and maybe a number three.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Math questions are so stupid! Theyre like If I have 5 bottles in one hand and 6 in the other, what do… — Scott Copy Share Image
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.” — A.R. Wise Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money. — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
“Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
