Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
“IRR is technically calculated by setting the NPV equation to zero and solving for r = IRR.” — Mark Jeffery Copy Share Image
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.” — Bruce Schechter Copy Share Image
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Numbers with the Letter “A” Name all the numbers from 1 - 100, which have the letter “A” in their spelling.” — Puzzleland Copy Share Image
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences. It first appeared in… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“We honorspren mimic Honor himself. You Cryptics mimic … weird stuff?” “The fundamental underlying mathematics by which natural phenomena occur. Mmm. Truths that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it. — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.” — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
