Active Quote by Richard Courant

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

— Salomon Bochner

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is…

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

— Marcus du Sautoy

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid