18th century Quote by Richard Askey

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial…

— Isaac Newton

Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

— Joel Spencer

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

— Israel Gelfand

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Complexity can be categorized into two types: combinatorial and dynamic.”

— Rich Jolly

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic…

— David Leavitt

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than…

— Anonymous

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

— David Hilbert

“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now, we understand…

— Jordan Ellenberg

...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