Algorithms Quote by Donald Knuth

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

— Doron Zeilberger

Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears…

— George Polya

Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of…

— Hannah Fry

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

— John Allen Paulos

“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world. Mathematics was…

— John D. Barrow

“An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm isn’t a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

— Hilary Mason

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without…

— Hannah Fry

“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because either everything…

— David Berlinski

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally…

— George Andrews