Math Untangled

Math Untangled
Showing posts with label math quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Math Quotes

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
Bill Gates

Friday, February 1, 2013

Math Quotes

"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius."
~ Marston Morse (American mathematician 1892-1977)

Thursday, November 1, 2012

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 - )

Monday, October 1, 2012

Math Quote

"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."
~ Shakuntala Devi (Indian writer 1929-2013)

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Math Quotes

"You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics."
Mos Def (American musician, 1973 - )

Friday, June 1, 2012

Math Quotes

"Mathematics is the music of reason."
~ James Joseph Sylvester (English mathematician 1814-1897)

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Math Quotes

"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)

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Math Quotes

"A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance."
~ Mel Brooks (American comedian,1926) 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Math Quotes

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
~ David Hilbert (German mathematician, 1862-1943)

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Math Quotes

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