Bootstraps Quote by Howard Whitley Eves

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

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

— Harold Davenport

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be,…

— Paul Lockhart

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation…

— Roger Penrose

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

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

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

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

— Andrew Wiles

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make…

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh