Defined Quote by Rufus Choate

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and…

— Lynn Steen

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

“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 is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

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

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant