It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't… — Matt Dallas Copy Share Image
I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts… — Roger Bacon 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
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
Relationship problems could be as complicated as math, but every one of us has to create our own method to solve them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more… — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Math may not be able to Add Love or Minus Hate But at least it can gives a great hope that Every… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who says marriage is a 50-50 proposition doesn't understand two things: 1 - Women, 2 - Fractions. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Think of a number. Double it. Add six. Half it. Take away the number you started with. Your answer is three. Mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, a lot of the success I've had has been a result of having a very good mathematics education. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
“All polynomials of degree n-those that have a leading term of x^n- split into n distinct terms. This is the fundamental theorem… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image