Education Quote by Philip J. Davis

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers,…

— Hermann Hankel

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

— James Joseph Sylvester

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

— Ronald Graham

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

— Barry Mazur

For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the…

— Henri Poincare

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

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

— Lynn Steen

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

— Lynn Steen

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

— Henri Poincare

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to…

— Albert Einstein