Best 90 quotes in «mathematical quotes» category

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

I feign no hypotheses.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

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

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

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

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Numbers rule the universe.

The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

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

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.