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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… — Stefan Banach
- If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner
- I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — 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… — 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. — Unknown Author
- For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert
- Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs,… — Unknown Author
- Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel
- In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. — Kurt Gödel