Concepts Quote by Edward Norton Lorenz

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in…

— Jo Boaler

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,…

— Andrew Wiles

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Andrew Wiles

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler…

— David Hilbert

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may…

— Israel Nathan Herstein

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach