Abstraction Quote by Keith Devlin

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances…

— Leopold Kronecker

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the…

— Aldous Huxley

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

No matter how negative someone is to you, do not throw their behavior back in their face. To all the mathematicians out there, I…

— Anonymous

“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the…

— Orson Scott Card

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

— Eric Thomas

Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope that every…

— Anonymous

“Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.”

— Abby Morel

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods…

— Le Corbusier

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every…

— Madison Davenport

“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that drives mathematics…

— Matt Parker