Anticipate Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in…

— Anonymous

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

— Paul Lockhart

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

— Martin Gardner

“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it…

— G. Arnell Williams

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.…

— Daniel Tammet

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation…

— Dusa McDuff

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

— Stephen Malkmus