Attention Quote by Morris Kline

“It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that work for…

— G.H. Hardy

I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

“When { Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble…

— Anonymous

As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have…

— Michael Shermer

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

— Richard P. Feynman

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of…

— Alexander Grothendieck

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could…

— Terence Tao

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the…

— Richard P. Feynman

The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never…

— Irving Adler

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah