Hypothesis Quote by Andrew Wiles Download Open image “The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.” — Andrew Wiles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypothesis Problem
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“Finding a method to categorize transcendental numbers was one of David Hilbert's great unsolved maths problems (along with the Riemann Hypothesis), and it remains… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such… — Henri Darmon Copy Share Image
“The problem is that many mathematicians have done the same thing Riemann himself did: surged ahead using the prime counting method , assuming that… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image