Quotes by : Gian-Carlo Rota

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always....

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of....

The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely....

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury....

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically....

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen....

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that....