Quotes About Mathematics

Statistics: A group of numbers looking for a fight.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

The human doesn't need long mathematical equations to hit a home run in baseball. The human body already understands the math involved and can do it with just some practice. Isn't that wonderful?

All I hear is mathematics. All I see is music.

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

An animation of real variables proves that the mathematical model is true.

At one point I had a romanticized notion about mathematics; the idea of all-consuming beauty, so to speak. But outside of numerical analysis, mathematics must be practical, which is, by any rubric, only slightly different that any other reality.

Economics is all algebra.

Good mathematics is a soliloquy, communicated.

Mathematics is an ambiguous way to prove or disprove ideal behaviors of objects.

Mathematics is the most beautiful world. Everyone has their own entry key and the freedom to discover as much of it as they want.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important

Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

The two important variables for the policy formulation are projected inflation and the output gap. There is no clear hidebound mathematics that we must give 'X' weight to inflation and 'Y' weight to growth and form the associated policy.

As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

Dear Algebra, Stop asking us to find your X. She's not coming back

Matt smirked. "Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for example. Did you know that we subconsciously track the sound properties in poetry?

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.