Quotes About Mathematics

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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The dynamics of [quadrotor robots] are quite complicated. In fact, they live in a 12-dimensional space.

But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

Genuine mathematicians do not gang up, but the weak need gangs in order to survive.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

I never use a computer.

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.