We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
quote by Albert Einstein
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
quote by John Adams
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
quote by James Joseph Sylvester
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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
quote by Simeon Poisson
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Mathematics is the most powerful tool that people have developed to investigate the world around us. But it is taught so that students do not realize this. The language of mathematics is able to describe objects, structures, properties and relationships in an unambiguous way. In this context we talk about the power of the "descriptive" of mathematics. In this way, people were able to formulate and express such assertions accurate and unambiguous knowledge.
quote by Juraj Hromkovic, translated by Marin Vlada
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Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
quote by Andrew Wiles
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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
quote by David Hilbert
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
quote by Walter Kohn
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The Delights of Mathematics
It seems a hundred years or more
Since I, with note-book, ink and pen,
In cap and gown, first trod the floor
Which I have often trod since then;
Yet well do I remember when
With fifty other fond fanatics,
I sought delights beyond my ken,
The deep delights of Mathematics.
I knew that two and two made four,
I felt that five times two were ten,
But, as for all profounder lore,
The robin redbreast or the wren,
The sparrow, whether cock or hen,
Knew quite as much about Quadratics,
Was less confused by x and n,
The deep delights of Mathematics.
The Asses' Bridge I passed not o'er,
I floundered in the noisome fen
Which lies behind it and before;
I wandered in the gloomy glen
Where Surds and Factors have their den.
But when I saw the pit of Statics,
I said Good-bye, Farewell, Amen!
The deep delights of Mathematics.
O Bejants! blessed, beardless men,
Who strive with Euclid in your attics,
For worlds I would not taste again
The deep delights of Mathematics.
poem by Robert Fuller Murray
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It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
quote by Albert Einstein
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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
quote by Richard Courant
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Mathematics is the future Latin language, mandatory for all scientists, just because mathematics allows maximum acceleration of scientific circulation.
aphorism by Grigore Moisil (1970), translated by Marin Vlada
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
quote by John Adams
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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.
quote by Diane Cilento
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Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
Dirk Struik in A Concise History of Mathematics
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.
quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
quote by Sofia Kovalevskaya
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May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
quote by James Joseph Sylvester
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