They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn’t remember what number comes after… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs,… — Ross Honsberger Copy Share Image
When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
As a girlchild in the early-to-mid 1980s, I wasn't expected to like math. So I stopped liking math. As a young woman,… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“To this day, the Clay Mathematics Institute's bounty of $1 million for anyone who can prove that all the non-trivial zeroes of… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Only in math problems can you buy 60 cantaloupes and nobody asks what the hell is wrong with you. — Nate Copy Share Image
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard… — Nathaniel Bowditch Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
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