The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The zeta function is the sum of an infinite sequence of inverse powers.” — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. { Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor 's… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
By the time I was a student in high school...I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied… — John Nash Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
“In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Well, three reasons. First, because I've been thinking about our Theorem and I have a question. How does it work if you're… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
“For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Oresme's genius was to make a new series which was definitely smaller than the harmonic series. He took the list of all… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
