The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Our fixation with STEM erodes our sensitivity to the nonlinear shifts that occur in all human behavior and dulls our natural ability… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the… — A.P Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill… — Constance Bowman Reid Copy Share Image
“If you divide something that is essentially one, you will end up with imaginary infinite numbers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, you were allowed to ask ever so many questions. And even to come up with new ones as soon as… — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
“This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.” — Nasa Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I completed my degree in Mathematics at Rajapalayam Rajus College and then went to Chennai in 1993. I also completed my law degree. — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology. — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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