Greeks Quote by Pierre Simon De Laplace

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made…

— Keith J. Devlin

“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and…

— P. Carey Reid

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all…

— Henri Poincare

“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was…

— Yōko Ogawa

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness…

— Alain Badiou

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato

“The choice of ten basic number symbols—that is, the Hindus’ choice of the base 10 for counting and doing arithmetic—is presumably a direct consequence…

— Keith J. Devlin

“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to…

— Jim Al-Khalili