Believe Quote by Maryam Mirzakhani

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more…

— Terence Tao

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even…

— Paul Halmos

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and…

— Alfred Adler

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

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

— Danica McKellar

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach us that…

— Savannah Yates