Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and w...
Mathematics is as old as Man.
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleg...
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher ...
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only wo...
Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship be...
Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at so much per ce...
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was 'style' and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatu...
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
How is an error possible in mathematics?
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
