Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that. — Franz Ernst Neumann Copy Share Image
I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years. — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take… — Siméon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
