Mathematics Quotes

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.