Ideas Quote by Ivars Peterson

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of…

— Ivars Peterson

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation…

— Dusa McDuff

“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it…

— G. Arnell Williams

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

— Dirk Jan Struik

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

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

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

— Richard Hamming

“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice is required…

— David Foster Wallace