Errors Quote by Paul Halmos

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can compress a…

— Richard Bookstaber

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

— Paul Halmos

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

— Edward Kasner

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

— Danica McKellar

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

— Leo Tolstoy

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

— Roger Bacon