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
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
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
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
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
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
We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Even athletic directors can do the simple math. Five conferences, five power conferences, and only four slots. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Math is the only place where I hear someone doing ridiculous things. For Example John has 30 chocolate bar he eats 23,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais Copy Share Image
“Odd,” agreed Reg. “I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
“When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, “Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths,” Dweck recommends, “The feeling of math… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Investigating the sum of reciprocal powers gives insights into the product of all the primes (in fraction form).” — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
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