If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future. — Enrico Bombieri Copy Share Image
“Mathematical truth is immutable; it lies outside physical reality... This is our belief; this is our core motivating force.” — Joel Spencer Copy Share Image
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Dear Math Assignment, Please don't have a back please don't have a back *flips it over* Sincerely, Fuck this homework -_- — Jerett Parker Copy Share Image
I've fought a maths teacher, one of my sparring partners has a degree in biochemistry; there's a lot of brain in the… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal. — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Whats LOVE? in math: A problem _ in history: A war _ in chemistry: A reaction _ in art: A heart _ in me: YOU :) — Cut!E_thEa Copy Share Image
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
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