A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.” — William Dunham Copy Share Image
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing.… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The 2 most common lies you hear: 1. We will always be together. 2. You will use algebra in real life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
