The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil..
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect..
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America'….
A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world ha….
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old..
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math an….
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it..
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality..
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it..
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms.".
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is ….
The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same..
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly ….
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians..
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method..
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer..
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence..
I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm goin….
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just ….
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page..
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocall….