Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable and definitive. They have always been in controversy over developing aspects of mathematics, and they have always considered their own age to be in a period of crisis.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Mathematics is a language

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure