Words matter. These are the best Mathematician Quotes from famous people such as Glen Taylor, Stephen Sondheim, G. H. Hardy, Michaela Watkins, Philip Emeagwali, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am – I just knew I didn’t want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.
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.
My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other’s differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other’s differences and help prop each other up.
Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, ‘Hey, there’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.’ And they would be like, ‘Please don’t ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.’
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own business in her mid-40s. She linked manufacturers in Taiwan to companies in the United States that needed those types of products.
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn’t a mathematician. Didn’t like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.
When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.
Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
I know myself. I’m not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
You don’t have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.
I’ve always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.
You don’t watch ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and say, ‘This is how every mathematician is.’
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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.
I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you’re talking about being a mathematician, I think that’s definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis’ communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
