Quotes About Mathematics

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

There is no sign of a mathematical pedigree in Nash's ancestry or any indication that mathematics was much in the air at the Nash household.

The main interest of Fermat, who shares the credit for inventing calculus with Newton and analytic geometry with Descartes, was number theory —"the higher arithmetic.

Of course he will, he's a mathematics professor -he won't want to leave any loose ends.

How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...

Sabemos tantas cosas, que la aritmética es falsa, que uno más uno no siempre son uno sino dos o ninguno, nos sobra tiempo para hojear el álbum de agujeros, de ventanas cerradas, de cartas sin voz y sin perfume.

Math. . . . [is] akin to poetry: a way of taking a big idea and condensing and honing it until it communicates exactly the right information.

By the nature of their discipline, mathematicians invariably do their best intuitive work in their twenties or early thirties—whereas historians and other social scientists often need years of studious preparation before they became capable of genuinely creative work.

Weinberg, whom Oppenheimer had come to regard as one of his brightest students, observed that mathematical formulas were like temporary hand-holds for a rock-climber. Each hand-hold more or less dictates the position of the next hand-hold. "A record of that," Weinberg said, "is a record of a particular climb. It gives you very little of the shape of the rock.

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279,' said Clever Clare.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

And inquiries into nature have the best result when they begin with physics and end in mathematics.

What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?

Bertrand Russell wrote about the beauty of mathematical science: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Das Einmaleins ist mir bis auf diese Stunde nicht geläufig.

The conjugate expression for a binomial of form a + b is the expression a - b and conversely.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.