Better Quote by Maryam Mirzakhani

In particular, I am interested in understanding hyperbolic surfaces.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere,…

— Margaret Wertheim

It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral reefs. Sea…

— Margaret Wertheim

I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea…

— Henri Poincare

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an…

— Joan Mitchell

“The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

“Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.”

— Hermann Weyl

Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

— Judith Orloff

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about…

— Salman Rushdie

“Here's a simplified version of what the Stanford group did. They started with a much-studied kind of string theory-a flat four-dimensional spacetime with a…

— Lee Smolin

“Now, if on the one hand it is very satisfactory to be able to give a common ground in the theory of knowledge for…

— Hermann Weyl