Dozen Quote by John Edensor Littlewood

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

— John Allen Paulos

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

— Andrew Wiles

All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams…

— Rebel Wilson

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in…

— John Hurt

For the better part of the first year in college, I didn't understand a single joke. For the better part of the second year,…

— Jon Rahm

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely…

— John Hurt

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely…

— John Hurt

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

— George Orwell

The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way…

— Sam Trammell

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles