Quotes by Math Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. Johannes Kepler jewelsmathmean Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. John Allen Paulos teachingliteraturemath Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. John Arbuthnot mathscienceknowledge I think, therefore I laugh. John Allen Paulos educationmathknowledge My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. John Astin dadmaththinking A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. John B. S. Haldane mathtimebelieve Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God. Johannes Kepler godmathscience Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point. John Banville mixturesnullmath ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. John C. Baez topologyalgebramath It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. John C. Baez nastynicemath Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like. Jodi Picoult strugglemathkids The solution of every problem is another problem Johann Wolfgang von Goethe logicproblemmath Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. John Deacon studentssidesmath Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers. John Derbyshire mathnumbersbeauty I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..." John Edensor Littlewood wishmathfriendship It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely. John Edensor Littlewood learningmathpast The infinitely competent can be uncreative. John Edensor Littlewood mathematicalmathematicsmath The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm. John Edensor Littlewood mathnumbersthinking A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." John Edensor Littlewood habitmathneeds The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. John Edensor Littlewood mathwritingscience«3637383940414243444546»
