Quotes About Mathematics

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

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

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; "You + God = Enough

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.

While he was to become adept at business, Hamilton, the man who was to found America's financial system, as a schoolboy had to struggle with mathematics.

if i add that my uncle took mathematical strides of exactly three feet, and that, while walking, he firmly clenches his fists-the sign of an impetuous temperament-then you will know him well enough not to wish to spend too much time in his company

Consider the brutal mathematics of financial loss: if you lose 50 percent on an ill-considered bet, you'll need a 100 percent gain just to get back to where you started.

I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As

Humans abstract and record information in five major ways: with writing, mathematical notation, painting/photography/videography, maps, and clocks—that is, we can abstract and record verbal, numerical, visual, spatial, and temporal information.

Albert Einstein has it that "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it.

for geometry, you know, is the gate of science, and the gate is so low and small that one can only enter it as a little child.

it attempts to show that the necessary conditions of logical and mathematical reasoning, which undergird the natural sciences as a human activity, require the rejection of all broadly materialist worldviews. Reppert

The proponent of concrete universals must also confront the problem of uninstantiated universals. This problem is especially acute for a concretist account of mathematics, since the finite world cannot accommodate the infinities of classical mathematics.

Were textbooks to disappear tomorrow, and with them the treasures that they contain, it would take centuries to rediscover the calculus, but only days to recover our debts, and with our debts, the numbers that express them.