Mathematics Quotes - Page 6

• I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

  May Sarton

  Math, Science, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “As We Are Now: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Men, Law

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• Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

  Gregory Bateson

  Math, World, Fantasy

  "Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology".

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• Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Lying, Groups, Analysis

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humility, Pride, Math

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• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Squares, Circles, Roots

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

  Jean Dieudonne

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• The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

  James R Newman

  Math, Branches, Groups

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1534, Рипол Классик

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• Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

  Paul Davies

  Lying, Everyday, Mind

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• All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Military, Kgb, Three

  "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

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• I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Together, Would Be

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Needs, Ethics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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• Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Mechanic, Topology, Linear

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• More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

  Russell Hoban

  Unlimited

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.42, A&C Black

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• If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Ideas, Prove It, Stills

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• Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

  Hendrik Lenstra

  Science, Numbers, Study

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• Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.

  Donald J. Newman

  Shining, Mountain, Path

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• There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Astrology, Statistics, Mathematical

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• One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

  Henri Poincare

  Geometry, Convenient, Theorems

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.85, Modern Library

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• 1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

  Edward Witten

  Moon, Nasty, Newton

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• In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

  George Polya

  Math, Order, Looks

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• When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

  Brian Greene

  Giving, Physics, Mathematical

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• If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

  Brian Kernighan

  Done, Mathematical, Ifs

  Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1984). “The UNIX Programming Environment”, Prentice Hall

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• It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Math, Invention, Observation

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• If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

  Richard Askey

  Nice, Reason Why, Fortune

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