“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not… — Paolo Aluffi Copy Share Image
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and… — James May Copy Share Image
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
“Do the math correctly 226 Pages book = 3 days = 150 Pages each day 50 pages... or 4x50 250... ... 4 Days 50 pages ... Math = Life Life = Math” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.” — Lynne Barasch Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack;… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
“We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
