Quotes About Mathematics

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

1337% of Pi ? 42

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

What this really means is that he be able to appreciate my mother, whose jokes hinge on some grammatical subtlety or a working knowledge of higher mathematics. You get the picture. Robbie is about as interesting as a pair of red high-top Converse sneakers. But Robbie points to the mattress on the floor. He grins, slowly unbuckling his belt, drops his jeans. Lie down, says Robbie. This is interesting enough for me.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.