Definition Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

“With so many problems to solve ,I should be... Mathematician .”

— Makis Philosofukciss

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon

“In my experience, the best engineers are those who excel at these fundamentals and are able to break down complex problems into very simple…

— Richard Ladbrooke

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

“Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover…

— Abraham Kaplan

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

“In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was mistaken in…

— Bertrand Russell