Quotes About Mathematics

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

The time we take out, whether it is to do mathematics or music, or to read Plato or Jane Austen, is time to be cherished.

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

Similarly, if you're trying to prove something mathematically, it's possible that no proof exists.

Proof is what lies at the heart of maths, and is what marks it out from other sciences. Other sciences have hypotheses that are tested against experimental evidence until they fail, and are overtaken by new hypotheses. In maths, absolute proof is the goal, and once something is proved, it is proved forever, with no room for change.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.

The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, "God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man.

if N is large enough, it is virtually impossible to deduce p and q from N, and this is perhaps the most beautiful and elegant aspect of the RSA asymmetric cipher.

The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.

The Last Theorem is at the heart of an intriguing saga of courage, skulduggery, cunning, and tragedy, involving all the greatest heroes of mathematics.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G.H. Hardy

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?