Conscious Quote by Marcus du Sautoy

One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject,…

— Ian Stewart

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal,…

— Chilly Gonzales

Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more…

— Keith Devlin

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

— Kate Bush

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

— Gabriel Marcel

“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance…

— Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

— Tom Lehrer

“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

Music is really, really mathematical.

— Bo Burnham

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne