Accounts Quote by Oliver Heaviside

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and…

— Lynn Steen

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

— Albert Einstein

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical…

— Rufus Choate

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments…

— Vladimir Arnold

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know…

— Stanislaw Ulam