I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
“The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.” — Napoléon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
I don't need to be NUMBER 1 in something. As long as I am not as TRYING HARD as YOU ARE. shame… — ALYSSA Copy Share Image
Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me. — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
“any number of peas under the mattress and I would not know it—” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that… — Latto Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“Here, then, is the story of algebra. It all began in the remote past, with a simple turn of thought from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.… — James Newman Copy Share Image
The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The number of cells in your body outnumbers galaxies in the universe by 37 trillion.” — James Temperton Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
