The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful. G. H. Hardy
Math Is Like
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
There’s no reason to
There’s no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym – it’s a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter. Danica McKellar
Math is like going
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. Danica McKellar
Arithmetic is where numbers
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Carl Sandburg
I like mathematics because
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return. Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians are like lovers.
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The study of mathematics
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment… We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Alfred North … Read more