Community Quote by Cornelius Lanczos

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced…

— Cornelius Lanczos

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and…

— Gil Kalai

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

— Martin Gardner

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

— Tom Lehrer

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson

“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at…

— Steve Madison

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

— Christopher Robin Milne

“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure.....Therefore,…

— Charles Sorel

“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual activity of…

— Heinrich Neuhaus