The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ... — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y… — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it… — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama still is in campaign mode. The Limbaugh Theorem explains it. We've had eight years of Obama and he still isn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However,… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith 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
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
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
![“[Barack] Obama still is in campaign mode. The Limbaugh Theorem explains it. We've had eight years of Obama and he still isn't being held accountable for the horrible policies that he has implemented because he continues to portray himself as not attached to them.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/rush-limbaugh-28_barack_barack-obama-still-is-in-campaign-mode-t_462545.jpg)
![“In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one. So then we have essentially a ranking. It's a list saying this is my first choice. This is my second choice. Each voter, in principle, could be…” quote by Kenneth Arrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/kenneth-arrow-14948_asks_in-my-impossibility-theorem-i-m-assuming_2448414.jpg){kind=icon}
![“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the…” quote by John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/john-aubrey-29611_convinced_about-thomas-hobbes-he-was-40-years-old_1668279.jpg)
![“I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet…” quote by Archimedes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d27/archimedes-18068_calculating_i-am-persuaded-that-this-method-for-calc_1464167.png)
