Discovering Quote by George Andrews

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

— Keith Devlin

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the…

— Herbert Wilf

We mathematicans are all a bit crazy.

— Lev Landau

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