I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
“We did Shakespeare last year at my old school… But I can't fake it in Math. I can't even... what's the opposite… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“I believe in numbers. The ones you can see and the ones you can't. The real and the imaginary, the rational and… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“The Riemann Hypothesis states that all the non-trivial zeroes of the zeta function are on this line. If we can prove the… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it… — Michael Francis Atiyah Copy Share Image
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I… — Jimmy Rollins Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Teacher says to student, In Algebra A=B & B=C. It means A=C. Now give relevant example. Student: Sir, I love you &… — Babloo Copy Share Image
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...” — Brajesh Kumar Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I… — Khleo Copy Share Image
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
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