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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