Courses Quote by Gottlob Frege

We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing…

— William Thurston

It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?

— Twiggy McIntyre

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language…

— Michael Faraday

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

— Jules Verne

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so it was…

— Paul Laffoley

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions…

— Azar Nafisi

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

— Dennis Potter

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects…

— Albert Einstein