Mathematics Quotes
Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.
Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.
Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.
I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.
…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.
ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...
Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
If you divide something that is essentially one, you will end up with imaginary infinite numbers.
...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...
It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.
They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.
It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?
A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.
Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.
Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.