There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash — Enrico Bombieri Copy Share Image
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of… — Heinz-Otto Peitgen Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the story of algebra. It all began in the remote past, with a simple turn of thought from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“Everything isn’t a piece of cake. You say two plus two equals four, but do you know what happens when you add… — Shriya Sekhsaria Copy Share Image
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
If offered, I'll definitely do an item number. I don't think there is anything wrong in it. — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“They put a man on the moon. Can’t they find some way to end the scourge of algebra?” — Huston Piner Copy Share Image
Age may only be a number, but the bigger it gets, the longer you get to hang around. — Linda Poindexter Copy Share Image
Time is something in life not to divide if so you loose it four times. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
“They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
Finding a treasure is like working on algebra equations, all you have to do is find the X — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image