Mathematics Quote by Vanna Bonta

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

— Thomas Browne

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

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

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

“The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well…

— Graham Flegg

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation"…

— Bertrand Russell

“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are…

— Matt Haig

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence…

— Margaret Wertheim

What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the…

— David Eugene Smith

“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa…

— Mario Livio