Algorithms Quote by Philip Emeagwali

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than…

— John Forbes Nash

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first…

— Anonymous

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and…

— Herbert A. Simon

I think people have this hang-up from school that maths is this dusty old textbook that was finished hundreds of years ago, and all…

— Hannah Fry

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

— David Crane

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

— Paul Dirac

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school.…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.

— Keith Barry