I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers. — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in… — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
“You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?' 'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“differential equations that can be solved in “closed form,” that is, by means of a formula for the unknown function f, are… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A boy was teaching maths to a girl... He kissed her, again he kissed her n said, this is addition then the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I am not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless I'm always saying that… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
“Since September, I sat one seat behind Anna in algebra. Passed papers to her every day. Studied for tons of tests together.… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image
“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image