“Borrowing from Pythagoras, I’ve worked out the equation to a love triangle: A2 + B2 = C other people.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I wanna smile, but right now smiling feels like doing math. I don't want to do it, I don't see the point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to be number one. Being number one means there is a two and three. I want to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it… — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
“Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the particular types of curved… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to… — Plato Copy Share Image
I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Another Keisha, nice to meet ya, get the math I'm gone what am I s'posed to do when the club lights come… — Dirty Money Copy Share Image
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“If all the tough situations in our life are problems, mathematics thought us to solve any problem. Just need a formula which… — Riyaz Mohammad Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?” — Srinivas Shenoy Copy Share Image
Government and Politics, my fellows, are lies. Purely and utterly. It is through numbers, however, that we as Man can even come… — Dr Hermann Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in… — Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis. — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image