Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevit…

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as s…

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consisten…

- Edward Charles Titchmarsh