The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything,” I say in a gentle voice. “Prime numbers have to do… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Part of Ramanujan's genius was to find a way to get values out of the zeta function for negative values. As we… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
“Come, let us hasten to a higher plane Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and… — Serge Haroche Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“Math. It’s your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real “aptitude”… — Charles Benoit Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
“People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They’re wrong. That’s like… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics...… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
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