Approach Quote by Emanuel Lasker

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

— Henri Poincare

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the…

— Keith Devlin

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics -…

— Viswanathan Anand

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with…

— Norbert Wiener

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the…

— Norbert Wiener

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players.…

— Harry Golombek

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments…

— Norbert Wiener

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

— Marc Lowrance

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato