705 Quotes About Mathematics

I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)

We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans--everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

There are exactly three numbers: 0, 1, and ∞. The use of anything else is a form of dandyism.

I have described theoretical physics as the metaphysics of mathematics.

[...]Pure mathematics, on the other hand, seems to me a rock on which all idealism founders: 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are 39shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.

You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few. By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. Mathematics, however, can illuminate them, can give them expression - in fact, nothing can prevent it from doing so.

REAL MATHEMATICS is not about just computing but it is about figuring out…Figuring out the truthfulness, reasoning behind specific event, patterns, determinism in chaotic processes etc.