Quotes about Mathematician

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Votes: 4

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Votes: 4

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. Votes: 4

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. Votes: 4

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. Votes: 3

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. Votes: 3

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. Votes: 3

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut. Votes: 3

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Mathematicians are born, not made. Votes: 2

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. Votes: 2

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. Votes: 2

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. Votes: 2

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. Votes: 2

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. Votes: 2

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. Votes: 2

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. Votes: 2

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Votes: 2

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. Votes: 2

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. Votes: 2

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. Votes: 2

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. Votes: 2

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. Votes: 2

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. Votes: 2

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. Votes: 2

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. Votes: 2

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. Votes: 2

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. Votes: 2

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. Votes: 2

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. Votes: 2

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. Votes: 2

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. Votes: 2

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. Votes: 2

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. Votes: 2

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since. Votes: 2

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. Votes: 2

I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. Votes: 2

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. Votes: 2

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created. Votes: 2

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. Votes: 2

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. Votes: 2

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth. Votes: 2

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is. Votes: 2

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' Votes: 2

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up. Votes: 2

I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that. Votes: 2

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set puts out the logical eye, the logical set puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. Note that De Morgan, himself, only had sight with only one eye. Votes: 2

The library is the mathematician's laboratory. Votes: 0

Am I really a good mathematician? Votes: 0

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. Votes: 0

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. Votes: 0

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. Votes: 0

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician. Votes: 0

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. Votes: 0

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. Votes: 0

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist. Votes: 0

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Votes: 0

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer. Votes: 0

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. Votes: 0

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. Votes: 0

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. Votes: 0

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct. Votes: 0

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". Votes: 0

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. Votes: 0

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. Votes: 0

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician. Votes: 0

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. Votes: 0

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.' Votes: 0

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. Votes: 0

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. Votes: 0

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants. Votes: 0

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. Votes: 0

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. Votes: 0

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. Votes: 0

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. Votes: 0

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. Votes: 0

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. Votes: 0

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. Votes: 0

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. Votes: 0

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. Votes: 0

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. Votes: 0

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. Votes: 0

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester. Votes: 0

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination. Votes: 0

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. Votes: 0

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. Votes: 0

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. Votes: 0

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. Votes: 0

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' Votes: 0

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. Votes: 0

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. Votes: 0

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. Votes: 0

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. Votes: 0

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game Votes: 0

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Votes: 0

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! Votes: 0

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. Votes: 0

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof, but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by GUESSING. Votes: 0

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. Votes: 0

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. Votes: 0

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. Votes: 0

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. Votes: 0

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. Votes: 0

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. Votes: 0

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays. Votes: 0

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Votes: 0

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) Votes: 0

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician. Votes: 0

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. Votes: 0

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use. Votes: 0

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. Votes: 0

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'. Votes: 0

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. Votes: 0

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad. Votes: 0

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. Votes: 0

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. Votes: 0

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. Votes: 0

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert. Votes: 0

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books? Votes: 0

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us? Votes: 0

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world. Votes: 0

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world. Votes: 0

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. Votes: 0

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. Votes: 0

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. Votes: 0

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe Votes: 0

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic... Votes: 0

...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence. Votes: 0

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician. Votes: 0

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Votes: 0

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. Votes: 0

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. Votes: 0

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician. Votes: 0

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step. Votes: 0

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever. Votes: 0

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. Votes: 0

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate. Votes: 0

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. Votes: 0

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. Votes: 0

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished. Votes: 0

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. Votes: 0

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing. Votes: 0

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today. Votes: 0

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician. Votes: 0

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician. Votes: 0

To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not. Votes: 0

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker. Votes: 0

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas. Votes: 0

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem. Votes: 0

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory. Votes: 0

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly. Votes: 0

The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since. Votes: 0

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis. Votes: 0

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. Votes: 0

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge. Votes: 0

Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear. Votes: 0

Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt, muss his hair, and exclaim, Good heavens, Professor Dracula, you're stunning! Votes: 0

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are. Votes: 0

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. Votes: 0

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being. Votes: 0

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. Votes: 0