Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg 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
I was definitely one of those girls where my father would sit me at the dinner table and say, 'What's two plus… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Simple people always use common sense. Crazy people always use specialized knowledge.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months,… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud. — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
“It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.” — Hollis Seamon Copy Share Image
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
