Mathematical Research Quotes
- [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed.… — Julian Coolidge
- How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
- Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is… — Barry Mazur
- With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that… — Edmund Husserl
- I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.