In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of… — James Tanton Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
My sister Susan, who was the first one, was pretty good in mathematics and then chess, and my father chose chess because… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover.… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up. — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
“Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
