Great Mathematicians Quotes
- How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
- Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach
- For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
- I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer… — John Forbes Nash
- Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should… — Terence Tao
- Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their… — Alfred Adler
- Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work… — Daniel Tammet