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  • A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

    Sex   Math   Thinking  
  • Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  • I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

  • Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

    "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "The Proof", episode of "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
  • Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

  • In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

  • Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

    Genius   World   Newton  
    "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.
  • In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

    Strong   Reading   Math  
  • The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

    Sex   Zero   Wife  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5144, e-artnow
  • Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

    Nature   Science   Night  
    "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1
  • When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

  • The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

    Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”
  • Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

    Ideas   Use   Quacks  
    Isaac Barrow (1735). “Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines”, p.4
  • Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

    Believe   Math   Order  
    "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

    Life   Science   Men  
    "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension". Book by Michio Kaku, March 24, 1994.
  • No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?

    Math   Numbers   Use  
  • The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

    Airplane   Past   Men  
  • Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  • It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

    Real   Different   World  
  • Statistics is the grammar of science.

  • The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  • A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

    "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics". "Scientific Monthly" 59, 456, December 1944.
  • The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

  • Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

    Spring   Simple   Miracle  
  • However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

    Suicide   Suicidal   Men  
    "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.
  • I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.

  • Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

  • Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

    Children   Clever   Names  
  • To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

    Eye   Math   Half  
  • Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

    Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.641, Modern Library
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