mathematics

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

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.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.