The Mathematician Quotes

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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

One can always reason with reason.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.