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- Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically…
- In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last…
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- In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans
- It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell
- Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel