Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school. — David Beckham Copy Share Image
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.” — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the… — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“The problem is that many mathematicians have done the same thing Riemann himself did: surged ahead using the prime counting method ,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“the process of learning a theory depends upon the study of applications, including practice problem-solving both with a pencil and paper and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws,… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better. — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
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