Fellows Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is…

— Daniel Tammet

“I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.”

— Truth Devour

“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa…

— Mario Livio

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one…

— Caryl Churchill

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are…

— Matt Haig

“The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well…

— Graham Flegg