Quotes with mathematics

  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
  • Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

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  • James Newman The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Izaak Walton Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
    Izaak Walton
    British writer (1593 - 1683)
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  • Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Source: Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Stephen Hawking Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
    Source: Stephen Hawking: A Biography (2005) by Kristine Larsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
    Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
    Source: The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Andre Weil God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Francis Bacon Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Andrew Wiles I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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  • Eric Butterworth In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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