The Mathematician Quotes

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist.

To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.

...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998.