Beginning Quote by Isaac Newton

Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and…

— Richard Askey

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce…

— Ada Lovelace

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

— George Oppen

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

— Joel Spencer

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the…

— George Polya

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in…

— George Boole

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of…

— Alexander Grothendieck

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

— James Hilton

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

— G. H. Hardy

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction…

— Charles Dickens