Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Only in math problems can you buy 60 cantaloupes and nobody asks what the hell is wrong with you. — Nate Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.” — Floyd Alburn Firestone Copy Share Image
Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“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
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that. — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
“The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations… — John Pople Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.” — Eugenia Cheng Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful?… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math'… — Rudy Rucker 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
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work. — Lisa Lopes Copy Share Image
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“Let’s take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it. — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“I had written this paper on pancake numbers with help from my adviser, Manuel Blum, who's a well-known computer scientist, and we… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn’t exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you’ve never been interested in geometry.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
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