Mathematics Quotes
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In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.
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Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.
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I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.
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Dance is the mathematics of the Soul
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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
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As someone told me later, writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics. This was the first time I was so punished.
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Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.
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Dear reader, with this book I want to do for you what my teachers and mentors did for me: unlock the power and beauty of mathematics, and enable you to enter this magical world the way I did, even if you are the sort of person who has never used the words “math” and “love” in the same.
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Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
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I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
