Quotes by category:Mathematics

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say:... by Israel Gelfand

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

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If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious. by Israel Gelfand

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

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A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting i... by IU?. I. Manin

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. by Isaac Newton

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

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I feign no hypotheses. by Isaac Newton

I feign no hypotheses.

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

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Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you aroun... by Jack Edmonds

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

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Mathematics is the music of reason. by James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.

James Joseph Sylvester

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As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

James Joseph Sylvester

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From nothing I have created another entirely new world. by Janos Bolyai

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

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We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinat... by Jean Dieudonne

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

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It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

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Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic stru... by Jean Piaget

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

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Every dimension is special. by Jeffrey Lagarias

Every dimension is special.

Jeffrey Lagarias

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MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

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The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character... by Joel Spencer

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

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Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world. by Johannes Kepler

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Johannes Kepler

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Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

John Allen Paulos

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