Quotes About Mathematics

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

Podczas pobytu na dworze carycy Katarzyny II wielki szwajcarski matematyk Leonhard Euler wda? si? w dyskusj? na temat istnienia Boga. Aby pokona? przeciwników, poprosi? o tablic?, na której napisa?: (x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2, a wi?c Bóg istnieje! Nie mog?c zakwestionowa? adekwatno?ci wywodu, którego nie rozumieli, i nie chc?c okaza? swojej niewiedzy, oponenci przyj?li ten argument za rozstrzygaj?cy.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Ich stimme mit der Mathematik nicht überein. Ich meine, dass die Summe von Nullen eine gefährliche Zahl ist.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.