Effort Quote by Shakuntala Devi

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

— Salomon Bochner

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

— Edward Kasner

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

— Richard Courant

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 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 began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

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

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie