Mathematician famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
-- Andre Weil -
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
-- Andrew Wiles -
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
-- Bill Gaede -
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.
-- Bill Gaede -
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
-- Brian Greene -
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
-- David Chalmers -
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
-- Felix Klein -
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
-- Francis Collins -
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
-- Freeman Dyson -
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
-- Henri Poincare -
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
-- Henri Poincare -
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
-- Hugh Hopper -
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
-- Isaac Barrow -
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
-- Jacques Derrida -
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
-- Jerry Buss -
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.
-- Karl Weierstrass -
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
-- Larry Wall -
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ...
-- Leon M. Lederman -
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.
-- Niels Henrik Abel -
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.
-- Paul Dirac -
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.
-- Paul Lockhart -
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
"Read Euler: he is our master in everything."
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
-- Plato -
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.
-- Richard Courant -
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
-- Stanislaw Ulam -
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
-- Stefan Banach -
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
-- Steven Weinberg -
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
-- Thelonious Monk -
I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.
-- Jack Edmonds -
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.
-- Jack Edmonds -
A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.
-- Brahmagupta -
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
-- Rene Thom -
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
-- Gregory Chaitin
