Mathematics Quotes

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

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.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

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