Mathematics Quote by Thomas Browne

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious…

— Ivars Peterson

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep…

— Mark Booth Jonathan Black

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense…

— Wolfgang Pauli

It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of…

— Manly Hall

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater…

— Martin Gardner

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

— Umberto Eco

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods…

— Le Corbusier

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally…

— George Andrews