Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

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.

Now I will have less distraction.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels theorem not only demonstrates that meathematics is a religion, but shows that mathematics is the only religion that proves itself to be one!

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

Rota's personality is compatible with mine.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.