Mathematics Thoughts of great mathematicians
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
— Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is
mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
— Shakuntala Devi, Indian writer and mental calculator
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human
spirit.
— Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public
eye and go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and
technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
— Katherine Johnson, African-American mathematician
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the
contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic
elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and
individuality.
— Richard Courant, German-American mathematician
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.
— Albert Einstein
What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed
by nature.
— Shakuntala Devi
Mathematics is the music of reason.
— James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the
cultural world is one country.
— David Hilbert, German mathematician
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch systems scientist
‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
— Eric Temple Bell, Scottish mathematician
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands,
and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part.
Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for
beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
— Marston Morse, American mathematician
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
— Stendhal (pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle), French writer
I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of
expressing an idea.
— N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian IT industrialist
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
— Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a
complete mathematician.
— Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the
secret analogies that unite them.
— Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it
is about understanding.
— William Paul Thurston, American mathematician
Somehow it’s okay for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet, if
I said “I never learned to read,” they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and author
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value
than solving it.
— Georg Cantor, German mathematician
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the
students think.
— John Wesley Young, American mathematician
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
— Dean Schlicter
Nature is written in mathematical language.
— Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer
Mathematics is a language.
— Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the
mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time
there.
— Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematician
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related.
They’re all creative expressions.
— Sebastian Thrun, German innovator, computer scientist and
entrepreneur educator
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
— Georg Cantor
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach.
Because it is looked at as a subject.
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in
magnificence.
— Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector
Wherever there is number, there is beauty.
— Proclus, Greek philosopher
Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to
convert negatives into positives.
— Philip J. Davis, American academic applied mathematician
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a
journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigor
should be a signal to the historians that the maps have been made, and the
real explorers have gone elsewhere.
— W.S. Anglin, Mathematics author
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of
ordered beauty.
— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher
Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
— Galileo Galilei
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems — they love a
challenge.
— Andrew Wiles
I’ve always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work
better.
— Alvin E. Roth, American academic
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make
mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in
mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
— Paul R. Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician
It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting
mathematics along the way — even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.
— Andrew Wiles
You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
— John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
— Dr. Seuss, American children’s author
The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make
complicated things simple.
— Stan Gudder, American mathematician
BY.
Prof Inderpreet Singh
dept of Maths
LKC,KPT
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