Quotes About Mathematics

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. Just one and one and one and one, he said.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

Science is just the latest theory we have, and as soon as another one comes along, a new discovery, a new way of interpreting them, then there's a new answer! It's not like mathematics that always adds up the same way, if you do it right. Science is a method of reaching a conclusion, not a conclusion itself.

Yet Laplace had built his probability theory on intuition. As far as he was concerned, essentially, the theory of probability is nothing but good common sense reduced to mathematics. It provides an exact appreciation of what sound minds feel with a kind of instinct, frequently without being able to account for it.

Many of Ronald A. Fisher's ideas were solutions to computational problems caused by the limitations of the era's desk calculators.

I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

Math doesn't respond well to opinion.