Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. – Brian Greene
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive. – Bill Gates
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. – Andrew Wiles
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. – Brian Greene
I wasn’t actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn’t work very well, in terms of mathematics. – Brit Marling
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. – Albert Einstein
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. – Andrew Wiles
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. – Bertrand Russell
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. – Albert Einstein
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I’ve also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I’ve got the skills for both. – Brendan Myers
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they’re extremely hard to solve. – Andrew Wiles
My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student. – Alvin E. Roth
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. – Carl Friedrich Gauss
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. – Ada Lovelace
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. – Charles Caleb Colton
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression. – Brian Greene
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. – Andrea Hirata
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return. – Bertrand Russell
It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way – even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day. – Andrew Wiles
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn’t remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8. – Andrew Lo
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way. – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
We’ve lost something that’s been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that’s always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. – Andrew Wiles
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. – Andrew Wiles
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he’s good with lower mathematics. Don’t get me wrong – he’s good. – Captain Beefheart
In my own research when I’m working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I’m doing if I’m solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I’m constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind’s-eye picture. – Brian Greene
I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense – how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don’t. – Brad Pitt