Books Quote by V.M.Robinson

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

“Without improvement in education, how can the economics of the world improve?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“While parents are too occupied with teaching their children math and science, they totally neglect the importance of imagination which can take children to…

— John Taskinsoy

“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”

— Paul Hoffman

“There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the…

— Robert Turnbull

“The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might…

— Richard Hamming

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem