There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, , , and .
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triang...
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 an...
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Mu...
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide --...
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game-- the chance that I might gl...
Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insi...
Mathematics is . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you it sense and you still don't understand what your ...
