Mathematics Quote by Bill Bryson

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching.…

— Steven Strogatz

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

— Richard Courant

“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling at x…

— Andrew Sturm

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with…

— Christopher Steiner

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

“Okay, so I may use basic math for doing my checking account, the percent-off sales on my favorite shoes, and other mundane things, but…

— Amanda Jason

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges