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The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

— Rene Thom

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights…

— Jim Propp

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an…

— Jo Boaler

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

— Charles Darwin

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of…

— Paul Auster

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.…

— Daniel Tammet

“What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.”

— Anonymous

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of…

— John Arbuthnot

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more…

— H.G. Wells

I think people have this hang-up from school that maths is this dusty old textbook that was finished hundreds of years ago, and all…

— Hannah Fry