Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.
Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?
If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...
I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?