Asked Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with…

— Philip Kerr

“Why fit in someones equation when you can create your own theorem.”

— Nivesh Raj

“However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”

— Stephen Hawking

“But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements.”

— Lauren DeStefano

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be…

— Henri Poincare

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

“In mathematics, you were allowed to ask ever so many questions. And even to come up with new ones as soon as you found…

— Michèle Audin

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”

— Paul Dirac

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition,…

— Margery Allingham