705 Quotes About Mathematics

Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.

Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler’s equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?Professor Jones: Yes, yes there is.

The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off

Today it is given in the textbooks as an example which young students dispose of in twenty minutes or less. Yet it held Newton up for twenty years. He finally solved it, of course

Replying two weeks later he states his opinion of Fermat’s Last Theorem. “I am very much obliged for your news concerning the Paris prize. But I confess that Fermat’s Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

Clarity is, indeed, all the more necessary when one essays to lead the reader farther from the beaten path and into wilder territory- Joseph Liouville

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.