Definite Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”

— C.S. Lewis

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the…

— Aristotle

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and…

— Lynn Steen

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been…

— G. H. Hardy

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such…

— Bertrand Russell

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and…

— Rene Descartes

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or…

— Salomon Bochner