Math Quotes

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Carl Jacobi
Profession: mathematician.
Born 1804, Potsdam, Prussia.
Died 1851, Berlin, Germany.

"The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit."​

 

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William James
Profession: writer.
Born 1842. Died 1910.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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John Louis von Neumann

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple,
it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ​

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Carl Boyer,
1949, calculus textbook

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.


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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

~Phil Pastoret

 

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

~Albert Einstein

 

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Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

~Dean Schlicter

 

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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

~Gregory Benford, Timescape​