Math Help

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
by Richard Preston

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
by Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics

So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
by Francis Bacon, “Of Studies”

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
by S. Gudder

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.
Author Unknown

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
by Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
by Albert Einstein

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.
Author unknown

Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
by Isaac Barrow

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
by Calvin Trillin

I don’t agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
by Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts

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