Quote by Timothy Gowers

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…

— Paul Dirac

“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the…

— Anonymous

“In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you.”

— George Pólya

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

— Felix Klein

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations…

— Sophus Lie

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

— Shervin Pishevar

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the…

— Johann Bernoulli

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation…

— Roger Penrose

“But what can be found can also be lost. The process of differentiation, creating the possibility of integration, brings into being the lifelong theme…

— Robert Kegan

“Old formulas don’t give new solutions.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

— Albert Einstein