Action Quote by George Dantzig

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

“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

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name…

— George Friedman

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Combinatorial complexity is well understood and can be tackled in an engineering fashion. For example, the airline schedule is usually built using a technique…

— Rich Jolly

“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can compress a…

— Richard Bookstaber

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a…

— Alexander Grothendieck

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one…

— IU?. I. Manin

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

— Salomon Bochner

There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you…

— Hannah Fry