Day Quote by Andrew Wiles

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the…

— Andrew Wiles

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and…

— Hermann Weyl

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in…

— George Boole

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something…

— Ian Stewart

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ...…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with…

— Adrien-Marie Legendre

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

— David Hilbert