Quotes About Mathematics

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen.

Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry]

Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. { Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor 's set theory in the development of mathematics .}

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

That Schmidt, he didn't have enough imagination for mathematics. Now he has become a poet. For that he had just enough.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

My voice is blind, my hearing is mute, my sight is deaf. Art is science, mathematics is conversation, and music is something that bleeds. I am so far away that I am inside myself. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

Yeah, I said. You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics. There are so many things I wish I hadn't said.

There is indeed a fundamental beauty in mathematical abstractions. They so attracted the Greek philosopher Plato that he declared that all those things that we can see and touch are, in fact, mere shadows of the true reality and that the real things of this universe can be found only through the use of pure reason. Plato's knowledge of mathematics was relatively naive, and many of the cherished purities of Greek mathematics have been shown to be flawed.

Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

Monsieur Octave de Camps, he said, having wasted his means on a certain Madame Firmiani, was now reduced to teaching mathematics for a living, while awaiting his uncle's death, not daring to let him know of his dissipations.

Deux plus deux faisaient-ils quatre au temps des dinosaures?

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

Cibelle understood how the trick was done, how to add your own little ripple to the crest of the hip and watch the chaotic mathematics of storms and power laws magnify it into a fashion wave.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Even today, women are generally under-represented in mathematics and science, but it's no longer socially acceptable to attribute this to differences in ability or mentality, as several prominent men have discovered to their dismay. Nor is there a shred of evidence to support those views.

Muchas margaritas tienen 34 pétalos, si no, normalmente tienen 55 u 89. En general, raras veces verás una margarita con 37 pétalos y si ves una con 33 es probable que se le haya caído un pétalo. Los girasoles, los cuales pertenecen a la familia de las margaritas, normalmente tienen 55, 89 o 144 pétalos.

Platonist view of mathematical ideas: that mathematical truths 'really' exist, but they do so in an ideal form in some sort of parallel reality, which has always existed and always will.