Mathematician Quote by Jack Edmonds Download Open image “I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.” — Jack Edmonds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematician Writing
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do.… — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn't… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
