Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to r….
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation..
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of ….
Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math..
You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was ….
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizationa….
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered..
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them..
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for….
Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is….
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is..
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is u….
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step one….
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve..
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air br….
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends its….
Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you t….
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact..
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy..
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that pai….
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with ma….