Quote by Paul J. Nahin

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

— Jacques Hadamard

“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“If you have left the real world and entered an imaginary one. Thank the author, that showed you the way. Please leave a review,…

— Erik Dean

“It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols?…

— Neal Stephenson

“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers…

— Graham Greene

“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical…

— Oswald Spengler

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

“had been deeply struck.... by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of equality in…

— Edward Frenkel

“Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest…

— Greg McKeown