The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
If market pricing is the only legitimate test of quality, why are we still bothering with proven theorems? Why don't we just have a vote on whether a theorem is true? To make it better we'll have everyone vote on it, especially the hundreds of millio...
It is a matter for considerable regret that , who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs and , who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved ...
I confess that 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems can easily be set up, which one could neither prove nor disprove. But I have been stimulated by it to bring our again several old i...
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stand...
She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murde...
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in...
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
If you can't tolerate the truth, never ask me a question.
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
