Age Quote by Ian Stewart

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or…

— Hermann Weyl

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

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

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.

— Anonymous

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by…

— Alfred Adler

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

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

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