Quotes About Mathematics

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. —Albert Einstein

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Mr S. got angry. 'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.' I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?' He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

Las matemáticas que hemos inventado o descubierto, de las que creemos o esperamos que sean una llave para acceder a la estructura del universo, muy bien podrían ser igualmente un lenguaje privado con el que garabateamos en los muros de nuestra caverna

Pero los números no son así. Los números son un infinito bueno. Y ¿por qué? Pues porque, al ser infinitos en número, llenan todos los espacios del universo, y se apilan unos contra otros como ladrillos. Y así estamos seguros. No hay dónde caer.

Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de

La aritmética es para alguien que se propone salir al mundo, comprar y vender. No. Vamos a estudiar los números enteros, el uno, el dos, el tres, etcétera. Eso acordamos con David. La teoría de los números; lo que uno puede hacer con los números y qué sucede cuando los números se acaban.

There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own business in her mid-40s. She linked manufacturers in Taiwan to companies in the United States that needed those types of products.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.

Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the problem is that most UK secondary schools don't stretch good mathematicians and therefore fail to turn them into excellent mathematicians.

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.