Quotes About Mathematics

Fermat said he had a proof.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.

students in affluent suburban U.S. school districts score nearly as well as students in Singapore, the runaway leader on TIMSS math scores.

If human beings could communicate in mathematical language -- which is more poetical than any other language -- the world would be an easier place to live. Perhaps one day we will follow Nature's example, for her immense book is written in mathematical language, as Galileo has affirmed.

um professor de matemática e seu aluno conversam em torno de cálices de vodca norte-vietnamita: [...] Um reacionário não anda cem metros em Cuba sem ser apanhado. E sabe quem vai pegá-lo? Eu, ele ali, aquele garçom, o motorista que está na porta, sentado à direção do carro. Quer dizer, o povo.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

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.

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.

The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.