Equal Quote by Hermann Weyl

Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off…

— George Polya

“Infinity earned its rightful place as a legitimate mathematical concept towards the end of the nineteenth century. The two big players behind this were…

— Matt Parker

The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered…

— John von Neumann

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

— W. H. Auden

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“The imaginaries finally lost their air of impossibility when nineteenth-century mathematicians realized that they're actually perfectly ordinary, law-abiding numerical beings-it's just that they hail…

— David Stipp

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and…

— Alfred Adler

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are…

— Alonzo Church