Behavior Quote by Rick Santelli

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler…

— Kevin Mitnick

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep…

— Mark Booth Jonathan Black

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only…

— Bob Hope

“Let no one read my principles who is not a mathematician,” he famously declared (less famous is the fact that the principles he was…

— Ross King

Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals…

— Stuart Kauffman

“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in…

— Midhat Gazale

“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a prime number…

— Michelle Richmond

“The conclusion that the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom were acquainted with both the Fibonacci series and the Golden Section, says Stecchini, is so…

— Peter Tompkins

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been…

— G. H. Hardy