I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning..
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old..
New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s n….
Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebr….
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs..
I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I….
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems..
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit..
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company..
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god..
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and do….
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world..
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a f….
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not mak….
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the….
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know..
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 3….
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it..
What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights ….
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of pe….
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new..