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What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know…

— Stanislaw Ulam

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical…

— Rufus Choate

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and…

— Lynn Steen

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

— Mark Kac

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought…

— Alfred Adler

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg