Achievement Quote by Hermann Weyl

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

— Ian Stewart

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of…

— Jean Dieudonne

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could…

— Terence Tao

“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know…

— David Berlinski

Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl