I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's calculus had the same power as Newton's, and thanks to its notation, even a bit more. Nevertheless, underneath all the mathematics,… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
I missed the day in school where you subtract all the zeros. Let's say you subtract 10,000 minus 89. I never got… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with… — Jo Boaler 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
“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
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