Mathematics Quotes

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.