Facts Quote by Stephen Wolfram

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything…

— Stephen Wolfram

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established,…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a…

— B.V. Larson

Programming is usually taught by examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in…

— Brian Greene

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper