Arrangements Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

— Alan Turing

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may…

— Israel Nathan Herstein

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

— George Washington

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to…

— Leon Henkin

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or…

— John Desmond Bernal

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles