Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematicianįive out of four people have trouble with fractions. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. There are two ways to do great mathematics. In mathematics, you don’t understand things. Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It teaches you life and death information like when you’re cold, you should go to a corner since it’s 90 degrees there. Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer Nature is written in mathematical language. Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. John Wesley Young, American mathematician

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and author Yet, if I said “I never learned to read,” they’d say I was an illiterate dolt. Somehow it’s okay for people to chuckle about not being good at math. William Paul Thurston, American mathematician Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding. Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematicianĪ mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea. Stendhal (pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle), French writer Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth. Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Eric Temple Bell, Scottish mathematician ‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics. There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature. Richard Courant, German-American mathematicianĪs 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. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Katherine Johnson, African-American mathematician And there will always, always be mathematics. Some things will drop out of the public eye and go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Shakuntala Devi, Indian writer and mental calculator Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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