Sunday 22 July 2012

Quotations about mathematcs

The following are quotations about mathematicians, or by mathematicians.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. 

Alfred Renyl & Paul Erdos -

 

Each generation has its few great mathematicians...and [the others'] research harms no one.

Alfred W Adler in “ Mathematics and creativity"

 

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.

G H Hardy in “ A Mathematician’s Apology

 

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Tom Lehrer

 

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

Sofia Kovalevskaya

 

 There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else—but persistent.

Raoul Bott


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