I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion;… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that the Aryan Romans culturally plagiarized the hexadecimal system from China. Not only did the former utilize the Abacus,… — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci… — Einar Thorsteinn Copy Share Image
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the… — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“the process of learning a theory depends upon the study of applications, including practice problem-solving both with a pencil and paper and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws,… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“The problem is that many mathematicians have done the same thing Riemann himself did: surged ahead using the prime counting method ,… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
“The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“In One Dimensions, did not a moving Point produce a Line with two terminal points? In two Dimensions, did not a moving… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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