Quotes Tagged With :mathematicians

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring....

Two writings of al-Hassār have survived. The first, entitled Kitāb al-bayān wa t-tadhkār [Book of....

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians....

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

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

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having....

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there....

Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted....

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists....