Analysis Quote by Noga Alon

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

— William Godwin

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a…

— Edward Frenkel

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

— Terence Tao

“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more…

— H.G. Wells

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like…

— Tom Noddy

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things…

— Anonymous

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and…

— Terence Tao