Arithmetic Quote by Harold Davenport

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

— Anonymous

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been…

— G. H. Hardy

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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

— Harold Davenport

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

— Leopold Kronecker

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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