Mathematical Ideas Quotes

8 quotes by 6 authors

• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
• I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers,… — Daniel Tammet
• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially… — Barry Mazur
• The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which… — G. H. Hardy
• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to… — William Thurston
• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. — G. H. Hardy
• I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas originate… — John Von Neumann

Who Wrote These Mathematical Ideas Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 8 Mathematical Ideas Quotes as follows:

• 3 Mathematical Ideas Quotes by G. H. Hardy
• 1 Mathematical Ideas Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Mathematical Ideas Quote by Daniel Tammet
• 1 Mathematical Ideas Quote by Barry Mazur
• 1 Mathematical Ideas Quote by William Thurston
• 1 Mathematical Ideas Quote by John von Neumann