Best 90 quotes in «mathematical quotes» category

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

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

God ever arithmetizes.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

I feign no hypotheses.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been OK with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

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 yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

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

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus