The only good thing about this math exam is that for each question I at least have a 25% chance of getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus… — Leo Beenhakker Copy Share Image
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
“Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank.… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics. — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Clue: All numbers you can see belong in one equation. These numbers can all be written in 1 line instead of 3.” — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
“And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image