Math Humor

My pin is the last 4 digits of π

Math Quotes

"I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college."

~ Danica McKellar (American actress 1975 - )

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"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."

~ Shakuntala Devi (Indian writer 1929-2013)

Math in Art

(credit to Mathemania)

Square Root

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"You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics."

Mos Def (American musician, 1973 - )

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"Mathematics is the music of reason."

~ James Joseph Sylvester (English mathematician 1814-1897)

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"If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance."

~ Bruce Springsteen (American musician, 1949)

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"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."

~ Frank Capra (American director 1897-1991)

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"A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance."

~ Mel Brooks (American comedian,1926) 

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"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."

~ David Hilbert (German mathematician, 1862-1943)

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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

~ Albert Einstein