Fashion Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts,…

— James Jeans

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

— Matt Haig

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

— Marissa Mayer

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

— Winston Churchill

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a…

— Emmet Gowin