For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If there were formula for success, mathematicians would have definitely held the top spot in the world's richest list.” — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Todd, trust math. As in Matics, Math E. First-order predicate logic. Never fail you. Quantities and their relation. Rates of change. The… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles)… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
Acting is mathematics for me. I do very little homework and rather rely on my imagination for playing a role. — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians among my readers do not need to be informed that ". . ." is the algebraical sign representing a blend of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a picture is worth a thousand words and words are a dime a dozen someone capable of even the most rudimentary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
