“You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.” — David A. Monty Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture — Bertrand Russell 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
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“had been deeply struck… by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself… — Shalini Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I really stupid Math. Because I gave more change when I gave my love to you. I was given much and now… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved! — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called… — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it “maths” and he… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial,… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
“In accounting’, rich dad would say, ‘It’s not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It’s just like words.… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“ Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu. Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles and the analysis about… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
