To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.
Mathematics is really an art, not a science.
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. . . . Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.
The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my outlook on everything and yet I'm not even sure how. It must be because in my formative years it was everything to me, the single place of beauty in my life, and of breathtaking beauty at that. I still believe that pure mathematics is the most creative thing that humanity does, though I am no longer a part of it.
You are the mountain and the valley.
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.