I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ” — Alice Kahn Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick 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
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
“Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward… — Sariah Wilson 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
“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number"… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
“This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of pure hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Karl Popper believed [POP] that nothing can ever be known with absolute certainty. He instead had a concept of “truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast… — Jonathan Evison 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
I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful. — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
Remember when everyone lied and said you couldn't subtract a larger number from a lesser number and in high school, it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Given that sin x = 1⁄4 and x is in Quadrant II, find the exact values of sin2 x and cos2 x… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much. — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
If you want to be at the top, if you want to be number one, you need to play against some of… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sex is like math: You add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply. — Anonymous Copy Share Image