Chance Quote by Anonymous

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

— G. H. Hardy

“The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is…

— G.H. Hardy

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be…

— Paul Erdos

“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics, history sometimes…

— G.H. Hardy

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

“There is no name that will last forever, even immortality itself is temporal”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

— Anonymous

“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort…

— Adam Rex

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

— G. H. Hardy

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss