Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
-Albert Einstein
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
-S. Gudder
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
-Dean Schlicter
Trigonometry is a sine of the times.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a c
ollection of algorithms.
-Carl Boyer (1949 calculus textbook)
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
-Eric Hoffer
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
-Harold Marston Morse
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
-Mark Twain
In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.
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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
-Philip J. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
-Richard J. Trudeau
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
-John Kemeny
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
-Leonard Adleman
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
-E.T. Bell
5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.
-Board in Danby NY
USA Today has come out with a new survey--apparently three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
-David Letterman
I'm a mathematical optimist: I deal only with positive integers.
-Tendai Chitewere
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
-Charles R. Darwin
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.
-Danica McKellar
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
-Carl Pomerance
That's all well and good in practice, but how does it