Top 892 Mathematical Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

There's a mathematical way to get success.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

I'm always trying to calculate the mathematical probability of certain outcomes.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

A mathematical equation stands forever.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.