QUOTATIONS
The following primary quotations are attributed to people who are not the key figure for the relevant topic.
ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL PERIODS
Exploring pi is like exploring the Universe
David Chudnovsky, Ukrainian–American mathematician
The art of measuring triangles
Samuel Johnson, English writer
The very flower of arithmetic
Regiomontanus, German mathematician and astronomer
An incomparable star in the firmament of wisdom
Martin Cohen, British philosopher
THE MIDDLE AGES
Algebra is a scientific art
Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician and poet
The ubiquitous music of the spheres
Guy Murchie, American writer
The power of doubling
Ibn Khallikan, Islamic scholar and biographer
THE RENAISSANCE
The geometry of art and life
Matila Ghyka, Romanian novelist and mathematician
Like a large diamond
Chris Caldwell, American mathematician
A device of marvelous invention
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
Chance is bridled and governed by law
Boëthius, Roman senator
With calculus I can predict the future
Steven Strogatz, American mathematician
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
One of those strange numbers that are creatures of their own
Ian Stewart, British mathematician
The most beautiful equation
Keith Devlin, British mathematician
No theory is perfect
Nate Silver, American statistician
Simply a question of algebra
Robert Simpson Woodward, American engineer, physicist, and mathematician
Algebra often gives more than is asked of her
Jean d’Alembert, French mathematician and philosopher
The imp that knows the positions of every particle in the Universe
Steven Pinker, Canadian psychologist
An indispensable tool in applied mathematics
Walter Fricke, German astronomer and mathematician
A new kind of function
W. W. Rouse Ball, British mathematician and lawyer
Just like a pocket map
attributed to Peter Tait, British physicist and mathematician, by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, British physicist and engineer
The matrix is everywhere
from the film The Matrix
The music of the primes
Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematician and author
Some infinities are bigger than others
John Green, American author
Lost in that silent, measured space
Paolo Giordano, Italian author
MODERN MATHEMATICS
Statistics is the grammar of science
Karl Pearson, British mathematician and statistician
Rather a dull number
G. H. Hardy, English mathematician
A million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
Robert Wilensky, American computer scientist
She changed the face of algebra
Hermann Weyl, German mathematician
A blueprint for the digital age
Robert Gallagher, American engineer
A small positive vibration can change the entire cosmos
Amit Ray, Indian author
A grand unifying theory of mathematics
Edward Frenkel, Russian–American mathematician
Endless variety and unlimited complication
Roger Penrose, British mathematician
Jewels strung on an as-yet invisible thread
Ronald Solomon, American mathematician
A truly marvelous proof
Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician
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