Announcements Quote by Stephen Smale

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

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that…

— Rene Thom

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon

“The first scientist to contemplate the significance of places where things apparently cease to exist or become infinite ('singularities' that we would Now call…

— John D. Barrow

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

— Alex Bellos

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

“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

“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 real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown”

— Karen Thompson Walker

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the…

— Freeman Dyson