68 Quotes About Maths

For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the "googol," which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics. Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.

He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

The person who love MATHS can know better that how to do the equations.

Hardest of all were those problems about people doing incomprehensible things with no motivation. I was inclined to drift away from the sum to wonder why people would care what time two trains passed each other (spies), be so picky about seating arrangements (recently divorced people), or - which to this day remains incomprehensible - run the bath with no plug in.

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.

Il bello dell'infinito è che non finisce mai. Il brutto dell'infinito è che non finisce mai.