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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other,… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope 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
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“You can add new things to your life at every stage of your life: New ways, new habits, new ideas, new fears,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a 'maths brain.' Anyone can be numerate; it's just a matter of confidence. There are so many… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell once described mathematical beauty in the following words: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Thor again tutored me in the seventh grade, when I was learning Algebra. Algebra was quite an experience for me. Thor spent… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt 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