Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
“But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.” — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
“once all real numbers are taken into account, every point on the line corresponds to exactly one real number and every real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We're not doing maths again?' Harriet lamented. Lord Winstead looked at Anne with unconcealed curiosity. 'Mathematics? On Rotten Row?' 'We have been… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math,… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Happiness surrounds the circumference of my life ever since you entered and made my diameter turn into a radius. — Gian Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.” — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Mr. Merrick, I'd like to speak with you." Mr. Merrick . He hated when teachers called him that, like he was an… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
“Do the math correctly 226 Pages book = 3 days = 150 Pages each day 50 pages... or 4x50 250... ... 4 Days 50 pages ... Math = Life Life = Math” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.” — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out. — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the… — Susan Elia MacNeal Copy Share Image
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct… — Faf de Klerk Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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