“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the… — Pafnuty Chebyshev Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“Two plus two is not sometimes equal to four! It is equal to four plus one, for one is a powerful amalgamation.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
Dear Algebra stop trying to get us to find your x shes never coming back. And don't even think about asking y. — Mario Tomasello Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King… — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
In every aspect of our lives we talk about numbers. We talk about cars in this way, houses, jobs. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years. — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
