Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner 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
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
As more girls get basic schooling, larger numbers will move up the educational ladder - some to pursue science, technology, engineering, and… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“Nine equals eight … just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I am a Leaper: a person who - thanks to some mathematical errors tied to the cosmic interactions of Earth and Sun… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.… — Ada King Lovelace Copy Share Image
I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what… — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
“Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago the ancients had an advanced mathematical understanding of universe that is revealed in many sources. There is a… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There has been some progress on proving the Riemann Hypothesis, but it remains unsolved. In 1914, Hardy managed to prove that there… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge,… — Robert P. Crease Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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