Mathematician Quotes

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Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the… — David Berlinski
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An… — James Joseph Sylvester
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to… — Freeman Dyson
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the… — Eric Temple Bell
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I… — Blaise Pascal
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically… — Keith Devlin
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful… — Constance Reid
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what… — W. W. Sawyer
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so Ã¼bersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who,… — Hans Reichenbach
PoincarÃ© [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic… — Eric Temple Bell
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians… — Gian-Carlo Rota
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a… — Wayne Thiebaud

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