Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

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

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.

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.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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 care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet.

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.

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 allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.