Calculus Quote by Anonymous

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

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in…

— Kevin Guilfoile

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods…

— Le Corbusier

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Lynn Steen

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you…

— Conrad Wolfram

Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly…

— Howard Whitley Eves

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach