Claims Quote by Paul Halmos

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“It appears to me," said the daguerreotypist, smiling, "that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

— G. H. Hardy

“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's…

— John Arbuthnot

“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort…

— Adam Rex

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument…

— Lord Kelvin

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of…

— James Keller

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if…

— Archimedes

“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?”

— Francis S. Collins