Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The proof in 1882 that pi is a transcendental number put a 2,000 year old problem to rest: for any given circle,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,… — John R. Pierce Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians call them twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
“Every weapon of cryptanalytic science—which in the stratospheric realm of this solution drew heavily upon mathematics, using group theory, congruences, Poisson distributions—was… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the fractals had proven that in a world of chaos, there is a way to understand the natural world… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
“The association of multiplication with vector rotation was one of the geometric interpretation's most important elements because it decisively connected the imaginaries… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity… — John Pople Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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