Mathematics Quote by Neal Stephenson

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting…

— Michio Kaku

“Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt,…

— Marta Acosta

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live…

— Sylvain Cappell

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Old math teachers never die, they just tend to infinity”

— Nilesh Monapara

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini

I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do.…

— Isadore Singer

My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very…

— Pavel Durov

Math is the only place where I hear someone doing ridiculous things. For Example John has 30 chocolate bar he eats 23, what does…

— Anonymous