Analogies Quote by Stefan Banach

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

— Paul Erdos

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

— Paul Erdos

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection…

— John B. Conway

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 study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 written for mathematicians.

— Nicolaus Copernicus