Theorems Quotes

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best… — Stefan Banach
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. — Gian-Carlo Rota
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he… — Ross Honsberger
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. — Kurt GÃ¶del
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernhard Riemann
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip… — Paul Erdos
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that… — Edward Mills Purcell
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite… — Harold Davenport
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

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