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Tag Name "Mathematician" (327)

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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.
Jonathan Evison
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
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The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.
Paul Halmos
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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The library is the mathematician's laboratory.
Paul Halmos
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When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
Henri Poincare
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Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.
William Poundstone
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Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.
Bernard Bolzano
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The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.
John G. Kemeny
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
Bertrand Russell
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A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
Bill Gaede
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
James Clerk Maxwell
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)
Albert Einstein
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Knuth
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When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.
Paul Halmos
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
Richard P. Feynman
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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.
Steven Landsburg
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When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.
Bertrand Russell
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A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
George Polya
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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
Isaac Barrow
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann
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A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
Martin Gardner
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