When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in… — Alan Lawrence Sitomer Copy Share Image
“ Derrière la série de Fourier , d'autres séries analogues sont entrées dans la domaine de l'analyse; elles y sont entrees par… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance. — John Madden Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of… — Heinz-Otto Peitgen Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Your attitude towards math problem can tell the solution before you begin — Isaac Hlungwana Copy Share Image
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
