History Quote by Simon Singh

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and…

— Rene Descartes

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.

— Ginni Rometty

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words;…

— Mal Peet

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as…

— Victor Pelevin

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

— Paul Lockhart

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our…

— Karl Pearson

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy…

— Anonymous