Quotes About Mathematics

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.

We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex multiplication and to be able to read a novel. They should be able to write a short story with accurate punctuation, spelling and grammar.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

My talent is numbers.

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very talented people.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.

Geometric diagrams are to geometers what board and pieces are to chessmasters: visual aids, helpful but not indispensable.

I use logic all the time in mathematics, and it seems to yield "correct" results, but in mathematics "correct" by and large means "logical", so I'm back where I started. I can't defend logic because I can't remove my glasses.

Definition 20. If some new vertices of degree 2 are added to some of the edges of a graph G, the resulting graph H is called an expansion of G.

A statement that mathematicians believe but cannot as yet prove is called a "conjecture".

Map coloring problem. Find the smallest number m such that the faces of every planar graph can be colored with m or fewer colors in such a way that faces sharing a border have different colors.

It has been said that geometry is the art of applying good reasoning to bad diagrams.

A topologist enters a coffee shop, orders coffee and a doughnut, and is served. Preoccupied with topological theorems, he takes a bite out of his coffee cup and has to finish his thoughts in a nearby emergency ward. His mistake is somewhat understandable as a doughnut and coffee cup are topologically equivalent

But the pure mathematician's goal is to have a good time, not to be efficient; and machine-building is a lot more fun than problem-solving.

Scientists working with relativity, or quantum theory, or modern mathematics, or systems theory, or chaos, or complexity are at the top of their fields.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.